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With each game I play, with each season I play, I'm running out of chances. You're never guaranteed next year. You're never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it's there in front of you.

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Brett Favre
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 10
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That's kind of how I approach life and football why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.
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But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
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I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
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Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.
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I love doing what I do.
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You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.
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In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
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There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.
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My job is to throw passes and be a leader.
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In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
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And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.
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I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.
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The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.
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Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.
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So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.
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Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
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Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.
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You know, I've had my ups and downs.
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I'm pretty boring really.
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