You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.- Brett Favre
With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I am running out of chances.
Well I would say that we are regular people first of all and we are normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we are not immune to tragedy.
Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.
Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.
The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with do not have football as an out.
The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.
That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that is hasn't happened.
Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you are not just a regular guy.
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.
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she is probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.
Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people do not.
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.
It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you do not have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
