“I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.”

—  Brett Favre

Green Bay's big cheese aging gracefully, rockymountainnews.com, October 23, 2007, 2007-12-05 http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/oct/23/green-bay146s-big-cheese-aging-gracefully/,

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