Over my NFL career, I've had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak.
— Peyton Manning
In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.
I don't believe in having a separate workout for quarterbacks. Other players hate that.
I've put a lot of thought into being a leader.
My closest friends are from my high school days.
I'll always be a Colt. I always will be. That'll never change.
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.
I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.
Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.
I don't believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured.
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.
Football's been such a part of my life. It's allowed me to meet so many people and do so many things.
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.
'Grateful' is the word that comes to my mind when thinking of the Denver Broncos.
I've learned a lot from my mistakes, stumbles, and losses in football.
Each game in the postseason has its own identity.
I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.
When I was drafted by the Colts, Indianapolis was a basketball and a car racing town, but it didn't take long for the Colts to convert the city and state of Indiana into football evangelists.
I get asked a lot about my legacy. For me, it's being a good teammate, having the respect of my teammates, having the respect of the coaches and players. That's important to me.
Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always known that whatever I'd do, people would hear about it. So I've had my guard up, and maybe that's molded my personality.
I have been tremendously impacted and influenced by my coaches. It's nice to play for people that are going to support you.
I cherished my time playing high school sports.
Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.
A man's got to know his limitations.
The word 'embarrassing' is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.
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.
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.
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've never played, on the field, any other position besides quarterback. Never been on a special team. Never been on defense.
I was truly honored to be a part of that game, to be playing the 50th Super Bowl.
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.
There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.
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.
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 want to thank the people of New Orleans and south Louisiana. New Orleans is my hometown, and of course they support their own team, the Saints, but they also support their own, and that city and state have backed me from the start.
You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.
I've tried to keep myself out of bad situations, and if that means I'm a Goody Two-shoes, so be it.
Don't ever think, no matter how old you are, that you don't need to be coached.
You certainly miss a lot of things about Indianapolis. I miss a lot of friends in Indy. St. Elmo's. The Slippery Noodle. Amalfi's.
One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.
Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.
I enjoy teaching football.
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 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.
I do vote. I have voted ever since I've been eligible to vote.
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.
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.
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 revere football. I love the game. You don't have to wonder if I will miss it. I will absolutely miss it.
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.
