Top 128 Quotes & Sayings by Peyton Manning
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
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 don't want to retire. I still want to play.
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.
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.'
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
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.
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.
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 was truly honored to be a part of that game, to be playing the 50th Super Bowl.
I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.
Everyone should play like Adrian Peterson. This guy does everything full speed. Pro Bowl - promoting himself for MVP.
I revere football. I love the game. You don't have to wonder if I will miss it. I will absolutely miss it.
My advice to the next quarterback that misses an entire year is to understand there is a little difference going out on the road again. You miss that. When you're hurt, you do not feel like you are part of it.
I don't believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured.
The finger lick is just a really bad habit - I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill me if I do it at dinner one more time. I look like an animal about to dig in.
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.
Each game in the postseason has its own identity.
There's no way to measure or properly express what a family like mine can mean. Mom, Dad, Cooper, Eli, extended family, you are the best.
I enjoy teaching football.
Football's been such a part of my life. It's allowed me to meet so many people and do so many things.
Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?
I never thought 'Sodapop Curtis' would announce my retirement. I always thought I would be the one to announce it. I'm a huge fan of the movie, but that caught me way off guard. I can't explain it.
You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.
In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.
Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.
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 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.
A man's got to know his limitations.
'Grateful' is the word that comes to my mind when thinking of the Denver Broncos.
The word 'embarrassing' is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.
I'm the best Manning.
The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.
I've learned a lot from my mistakes, stumbles, and losses in football.
I understand the seriousness of concussions.
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'
Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.
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.
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.
I do vote. I have voted ever since I've been eligible to vote.
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.
When you play for 20 years - and really, I never had to miss a game due to injury - that's not just good protection. That's good luck.
I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.
The one year the Lord took my greatest physical gift, he gave me the greatest gift you could have in children. So that was a real equalizer. And I would take that trade any day of the week.
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.
There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.
I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.
Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me.
I'll even miss the Patriots fans in Foxborough, and they should miss me, because they sure did get a lot of wins off of me.
I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I'd send him a helmet, he'd send me an autographed platinum record. I thought that was a pretty sweet swap.
I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.
I feel like I've improved at everything I've done every single year - except golf. Golf, I've managed to stay exactly the same.
I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.
My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'
I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.
I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. I write a letter every now and then, you know, pick out somebody and drop them a line, because I always like receiving letters.
Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
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.
If any other part of your body has some weakness, you go, 'Well I can probably manage.' But when you're a quarterback, and it's your right hand, you're certainly concerned far as being able to do your job.
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 never played, on the field, any other position besides quarterback. Never been on a special team. Never been on defense.
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