Kurt Warner thought long and hard about retirement last season after leading the Arizona Cardinals to the Super Bowl. The veteran quarterback eventually decided to return for the 2009 season, but he said during an interview on?Sporting News Radio today that?he can relate to Brett Favres situation.

?Well I think a little bit because just the idea of going through the end of the season ? this was a long year for me, a lot of struggles, a couple of physical issues, especially with my hip which I had surgery on about six weeks ago, Warner said. ?So you deal with all of those issues during the season.?I was tired and I was worn out and I really, seriously considered retirement and thought, ?You know I dont know if I want to do this anymore, Im not sure if I can do this anymore.?Right up until the end of the season I had no idea what I was going to do.?

?The one thing was that shortly after the season was over I was already thinking about Football again, it was already on my mind so I was able to commit and realize that, ?OK, if Im thinking about Football at this point theres still a little Football left, so?its easy for me to make that decision.

?But I understand the struggles you deal with during the season. I understand the physical and mental strains it takes on your body and on your mind.?And as you get older I can understand you getting to the point where youre just like, ?I dont know if I can do that anymore, I gotta get away from it. But then a lot of times you get away from it and theres some guys that say I didnt miss it, it was easy for me to walk away, it was the right time.

?Then theres other guys that it takes a couple of months to really get away from the game and you start getting that itch again and you start thinking about Football.?You know sometimes you have to make a decision earlier than you want to based on teams and the current situation and thats where I relate with Brett.?Sometimes you get forced into making that quick decision and its not until a couple of months down the road that you realize I still think theres some more left in me.? So I can relate to that and you know a guy like Brett ? you know hes good for the game, you know he can still play, you know he does it the right way.?You just hope that the bottom line at the end of the day is that the decision he makes, he gets the opportunity to let that play out.

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