Peyton Manning Quotes

My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

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 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'm the best Manning.

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

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

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

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 see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

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

Boy, do I hate to lose.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.

I don't usually stink. But I stunk today.

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

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?'

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.