Peyton Manning Quotations

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

I guess, to tell you the truth, I've never had much of a desire to grow facial hair. I think I've managed to play quarterback just fine without a mustache.

I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

Everybody is going to be excited to play in a Super Bowl. When you still enjoy the preparation and the work part of it, I think you ought to be still doing that. I think as soon as I stop enjoying it, if I can't produce, if I can't help a team, that's when I will stop playing.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.

I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me.

I've been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I'm not sure you can have a legacy when you're 25 years old. Even 37. I'd like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I'm not even 100 percent sure what the word even means.

When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.

When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.

I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.

Everyone should play like Adrian Peterson. This guy does everything full speed. Pro Bowl - promoting himself for MVP.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.

It truly has been an honor to play in Indianapolis. I do love it here. I love the fans, and I will always enjoy having played for such a great team.

Obviously, I think we need to put the ball in the end zone down there. It's still about trying to do our job, scoring more than them. But there's no doubt we want to score more in the red zone.

Chris is going to do a great job for the Dolphins. When he was here in Indianapolis, I appreciated his input in our offense, and I know our tight ends, Marcus Pollard and Dallas Clark , did as well. He brings knowledge and passion to the game and will be a true asset in Miami.

Players were surprised and upset emotionally about it. Everybody said a team prayer for coach Dungy and his family.

I think sometimes guys coming from college think if you lose one game you're out of the mix, but if you lose two or three or four in the NFL, you'll still be OK, ... It's not really that way anymore.

I think we're more of a team and kind of feed off each other, ... It's definitely the best camaraderie we've had since I've been here eight years.

I was happy we were able to get a little rhythm going there in the first half. We had a good mix of the run and the pass and the play-action. We had some good drives.

I think our team realizes what kind of team Seattle is. Certainly what they are playing for in getting ready for their playoff run. You know what type of effort you are going to get from them.

I think we've surprised some teams with our patience this year, ... In the past, we've been a throw the ball down the field offense because that's what defenses have allowed us to do. ...That's the nice thing about this offense and (coordinator) Tom (Moore) and his play calling. We usually call what's working. Games are shorter now. We're having longer drives.

That was a little bit of an aggressive call, ... That was a run, but I kind of got tired of handing off. I did change up . . . . But I'm doing pretty good for the most part.

We know these people; these people know us. We have a connection to these people.

Mike has been so awesome. He's such a clutch kicker. People are surprised (when he misses) because he's such a great player. There's nothing he has to apologize for. He's made so many clutch kicks for us.

We have a high sense of urgency on this team. We realize with free agency and with injuries, the days of building and talking about playing for 2006 and 2007, that doesn't make sense anymore.

We stuck to our plan and it worked. We just had to keep plugging and plugging, and we got into a little groove in the second half.

The sad thing is, he's a good kicker. He's a good kicker, but he's an idiot.

(Offensive coordinator) Tom Moore made a good point: In the NFL, you don't pick up where you left off, ... You have to go out and earn it this year.

I'm big into kind of who is dictating to who, ... There were probably a few series in the first game where they were kind of dictating to us. As an offense, you want to be the one dictating.

I love watching him, ... Unfortunately, I was not watching him on TV.

I'm not into judging or defining careers in the middle of a career. I hope to play for a number of more years. I am not looking back on my first eight years thinking about what is going to happen in years to come.

I'm disappointed. It will be more disappointing tonight and tomorrow. It takes time to move on from a game like this and make your peace with the football gods and get ready for next season.

Any time you get turnovers and that kind of field position, you want to score touchdowns, and we did, ... They weren't letting us pass downfield. It used to be teams wouldn't let us run the ball and we had to throw. Now it's the opposite. They won't let us pass. But the defense is doing its job.

It sounds like Marvin and I might win out on it. It's still in the building, I think, and hopefully, we'll get it worked out.

It just shows you he's tuned in during the week of practice and he's into the game plan. He knows the plays and that's what you like.

I remember a game against Denver in 2001, he had an in route, but he gave me one of these ... and he was gone.

The idea is to win the game. We realize we can't expect to score 10 points and win a bunch of games.

It's almost like we were the first team ever to lose a playoff game,

We're doing a good job of getting into the third-and-shorts, ... When you get into those, you've got to be able to convert them.

It's a good start, but that's all it is. It doesn't guarantee anything.

I can't tell you how much I studied these guys the last two weeks. We expected to play Pittsburgh. I really studied them hard and just really, just tried to prepare as hard as I possibly could. It's so disappointing when you don't win the game.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower.

The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.

I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I worked hard at that. That made me good enough to play in college and then I wanted to be a good college quarterback. During college I played well enough to make it into the NFL. I never took it for granted and really wanted to play hard at each level and I have always had a lot of fun doing what I wanted to do.

Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.

I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.

After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder.

The game was much like our season. This game tested our toughness, our resilience, our unselfishness. It's only fitting that it turned out this way. This is a great bunch of guys to play with. I feel very, very grateful.

I would like to think I will be a guy who knows when it's time to stop. I don't want to be a guy who hung on and hung on. I do not have a goal in mind of a year or a statistic.

In the NFL game today, there are a lot of better athletes than I am, and quarterbacks these days are faster than the quarterbacks have always been, they're running like crazy. But I kind of stick to my roots of the disciplined quarterback. You know, I'm doing the same routine every week, studying tapes and working hard, getting ready to play and making good decisions on Sundays.

I don't usually stink, but I stunk

Touchdowns to me means that you're scoring points and helping your team win games. You can have a lot of yards and not have points and not win games. So, this only means something because it has helped our teams win games and we won the division today in a competitive AFC West, that's a good thing.

We have to try really hard to not accidentally summon a demon.

I'm the best Manning.

I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence.

When you get a lot of money thrown at you, you can make some dumb decisions without the right advice.

I want to be out there every single snap, every single play.

My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.

I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.

When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.

It's kind of boring to me if teams never throw the ball.

Certainly our job as an offense to try to score points and that's running the ball, throwing the ball, whatever it is. Somehow, someway we've got to try to score points to help our team win. That's where the focus is and it's pretty easy just to focus on that.

Im happy to volunteer for the American Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet. The Red Cross is an organization that responds to those in need and it is an honor to help them with the lifesaving role they play everyday in communities nationwide.

In life and in sports we know that nothing lasts forever. The same year the greatest physical gift (football) the Lord gave me was taken away from me, I was blessed with the greatest gift any of us could have in two beautiful children. I’d take that trade every day of the week.

To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome.

You've got to remember what your priorities are. When you're playing, what u do on the field is the most important thing.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.

Whatever happens, happens. I can't give you a prediction because Jim (Irsay) and I will sit down at some point and he'll get a feel for where I am and I’ll get a sense of what direction he wants to go. Right now, I have no idea.

Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed.

If your team is going to win, you need to play better than the other quarterback.

Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

He had a Halloween party and I dressed up as The King. One of the more enjoyable nights I've had. Nobody recognized me. They recognized me, but they recognized me as Elvis. I might have to bring that back to Indianapolis.

I walked around for a while angry, in a bad mood. ... 'Woe is me.' I've gotten over that. It doesn't do any good.

In life, and in sports, we all know that nothing lasts forever.

Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.

Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.

If people think I'm a laid-back guy, that's their mistake.