Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Archie Manning - Page 2

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.

Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.

You get a new coach; you do things a little differently.

The Saints - it gave people joy.

I'm glad I got to play 15 years. I'm not scarred by the fact I didn't do better, or win more. I don't even talk about it, other people do.

Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.

I'm happy for my kids getting postseason opportunities, for both of them playing in the Super Bowl back to back. I never would have envisioned anything like that.

I don't feel any different than Tom Brady's daddy just because I played. I don't think I'm any different from any other father who's got a son out there playing.

I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.

Indianapolis is a great Midwestern city. Great people. Warm, friendly people.

No quarterback ever won a championship that did it all by himself.

I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

Frankly I've been in these situations where the locker room wasn't good. That's really the worst of times.

Drew Bledsoe is a great talent. He had some fantastic years early in his career.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.

I don't throw out advice unless I am asked.

Obviously, you have to have some physical ability to play quarterback in the NFL.

We never knew we'd have kids playing pro football or going to Super Bowls. That wasn't ever a part of our plan in raising kids, so we really feel blessed.

As a family, we didn't get into the celebrity thing. That's not what we wanted for the boys. We wanted them to play everything they could, be involved in as many school events as they could.

I've always said, other than my dad, coaches had the greatest impact on me.

The quarterbacks who are picked in the first round and are declared - and I don't like the word - busts, it's not that the scouts were wrong about their ability or their potential. But commitment is such a huge part of it.

When I see siblings in some families not get along, I just struggle with that. My wife says I need to be more real about it, but I just can't believe it when it happens.

The best we ever did was 8-8. But my career was not as dreadful as people make it out to be. You don't see any scars on Archie Manning.

I wish I’d played my whole career in flag football.

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Sometimes you gotta mess up a little bit to wake up

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.

The Saints are doing a good job adjusting. I think their focus is on trying to make the best of their season, but also to try and help the people of New Orleans in the process. From everything I've seen and heard they are doing a good job of it.

Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.

New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.