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.

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Art Way VR

Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.

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Life World Whole

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

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You Thing Thin

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.

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Life Whenever Want

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.

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Time God Very

I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.

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Car Us Totally

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.

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Art Way VR

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.

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Art You Wed

I revere football. I love the game. You don't have to wonder if I will miss it. I will absolutely miss it.

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Love You Wonder

There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.

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Who Were Ted

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?'

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Good Famous Art

Everyone should play like Adrian Peterson. This guy does everything full speed. Pro Bowl - promoting himself for MVP.

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Pet Very Tin

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.

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Respect Good Teammates

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.

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Art Age Your Body

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

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Great Us T

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.

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Age Year Very

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

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Sports Your You

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

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Time Tim T

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

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Us Understand UN

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.

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Truth Art Age

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.

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Time Sports Life

Football's been such a part of my life. It's allowed me to meet so many people and do so many things.

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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.

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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.

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I've tried to keep myself out of bad situations, and if that means I'm a Goody Two-shoes, so be it.

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I do vote. I have voted ever since I've been eligible to vote.

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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.

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Don't ever think, no matter how old you are, that you don't need to be coached.

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

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A man's got to know his limitations.

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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.

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It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.

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I don't believe in having a separate workout for quarterbacks. Other players hate that.

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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.

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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.'

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One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

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In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.

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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.

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Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

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I'll always be a Colt. I always will be. That'll never change.

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

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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.

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My closest friends are from my high school days.

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I'm the best Manning.

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

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Each game in the postseason has its own identity.

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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.

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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.

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I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

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

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

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