Coaches help every facet of a person's life.
Archie Manning
Success, you know, is a relative thing.
When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.
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.
Mardi Gras, the drinking, the partying - that scared me.
The game of football is always changing.
God that's a great game. I wish I'd played my whole career in flag football.
My first toy was an adjustable wrench I called 'my wrencher.'
It's a hard time, winning the Super Bowl or losing the Super Bowl.
I've always felt my wife had class and a lot more culture than I do, and I've seen that rub off on Eli.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Obviously, you have to have some physical ability to play quarterback in the NFL.
I hate football.
I didn't want to be one of these pushy daddies.
I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.
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.
Indianapolis is a great Midwestern city. Great people. Warm, friendly people.
When Peyton played, he was a grinder. I mean he was up early and late.
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!
We just take pride that our sons have worked hard and they handle their position as a quarterback.
Kids are doing more in their offseason. That's what the college quarterbacks, the pro quarterbacks do. That's how you get better.
People are just so passionate about football in the South. Great rivalries through the years. Unbelievable rivalries. It's healthy.
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.
I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.
I cherish my time at Ole Miss. I cherish those four years.
I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.
Cooper and Peyton really competed a lot, they fought a lot. But Eli was so much younger. He's the little brother.
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.
I was a good daddy.
You never get used to losing.
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.
Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.
Oh, the years fly by, that's just natural.
Gosh, I loved playing.
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.
The only thing I could do better than Peyton was run.
We didn't try to raise QBs we just tried to raise kids.
I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.
I like to play and I really enjoy watching golf in person or on TV.
Bobby Petrino, I think he's an outstanding coach.
In college, I was a running QB. We were a sprint out offense, so I had a big transition going into pro ball.
If you're a QB in the NFL, you'll be subjected to criticism.
When you have a son playing, you pull real hard for his team.
The '84 Bears were just like the '85 Bears, they just didn't win the Super Bowl. The defense was the same.
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.
I've always told my kids to have fun.
It's no fun when you lose.
