Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Archie Manning

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Archie Manning.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Elisha Archibald Manning III is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the New Orleans Saints. He played for the Saints from 1971 to 1982 and also had brief stints with the Houston Oilers and Minnesota Vikings. In college, he played for the Ole Miss Rebels football team at the University of Mississippi and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989. Manning is the patriarch of the Manning football dynasty, having preceded sons Peyton and Eli as a successful college and NFL quarterback.

American - Athlete | Born: May 19, 1949

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We didn't try to raise QBs we just tried to raise kids.

Archie Manning

I cherish my time at Ole Miss. I cherish those four years.

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I'm as proud as the next guy, but I've always been a little skeptical of the daddies who walk around talking about what great athletes their kids are.

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People say how unbelievable and enjoyable this whole thing must be. But watching your children play quarterback, putting themselves on the line every game, getting smacked around and bloodied up... it's very, very hard.

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Coaches help every facet of a person's life.

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Gosh, I loved playing.

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Oh, the years fly by, that's just natural.

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My wife, Olivia, always thought I was one day going to go into coaching. But after playing until I was 37, I didn't want to subject my family to that nomad life. I think I definitely could have done it.

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You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.

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Success, you know, is a relative thing.

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I like to play and I really enjoy watching golf in person or on TV.

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I loved Bud Grant.

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When you have a son playing, you pull real hard for his team.

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The best advice I try to give a young quarterback is, you need to know what you're doing. You need to know what you're doing, because if you know where to go with the football, you can get rid of it and throw it and you won't get hit.

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My first toy was an adjustable wrench I called 'my wrencher.'

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Kids are doing more in their offseason. That's what the college quarterbacks, the pro quarterbacks do. That's how you get better.

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The '84 Bears were just like the '85 Bears, they just didn't win the Super Bowl. The defense was the same.

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I've enjoyed so little success as a professional player.

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With Eli - and all of my sons - I wanted to impress that as they grow older, they are going to have important decisions to make and at decision time, you can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right.

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I wasn't supposed to run as much as I did in the NFL. But it turned out that all that scrambling I had done in college became necessary in the NFL. It wasn't by design. It was because I was running for my life!

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I think the first thing that my sons will tell you, that I never tried to be their coach. And I didn't give them as much advice as some people might think, being a former player myself and a former quarterback. If they asked, I gave them my opinion.

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We wanted our children to have as normal a life as we could.

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New Orleans people love their weekends.

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I was a good daddy.

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There's nothing worse than seeing someone hurt out on the football field.

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God that's a great game. I wish I'd played my whole career in flag football.

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The only thing I could do better than Peyton was run.

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We just take pride that our sons have worked hard and they handle their position as a quarterback.

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I hate football.

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That's the one thing before parenthood that no one really impressed upon me, that all of my children would be so different.

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People are just so passionate about football in the South. Great rivalries through the years. Unbelievable rivalries. It's healthy.

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I've said publicly, and it's true, I've had a lot of wonderful things come my way. But personally, the greatest thing I ever accomplished was when I was named the starting quarterback at Ole Miss. That was my childhood dream, as it was thousands of kids in Mississippi.

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I've always told my kids to have fun.

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As you get older, I have seen it a lot... fighting among siblings. The reason is usually money or spouses. But my kids don't fall into that trap.

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I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

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When I showed interest in sports, my dad handled it right. I lost my dad when I was nineteen years old. Up until then, his policy on sports was that you can go out for any sport you want to - but don't even think about quitting. If you don't like it, you're going to stick it out.

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I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.

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Bobby Petrino, I think he's an outstanding coach.

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It's a hard time, winning the Super Bowl or losing the Super Bowl.

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In college, I was a running QB. We were a sprint out offense, so I had a big transition going into pro ball.

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My advice for parents is to support your children, make sure they are having fun. Support them and be there for them. Give them encouragement and make it a life lesson that along the way they are learning to make good decisions and do the right thing.

Archie Manning

There are all sorts of challenging conversations as a parent and it's never easy. I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again.

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I'm not sure what the right age is to start playing football.

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Growing up in a small town of two thousand people, there wasn't too many ways to get in trouble. But I found some. We got caught stealing green plums from this old lady's yard.

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Mardi Gras, the drinking, the partying - that scared me.

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Back in 1983, quarterback Tommy Kramer got hurt and the Minnesota Vikings traded for me. The plan was for me to play, but I got something called Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder, and wound up on injured reserve.

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You never get used to losing.

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