Quotes from Peyton Manning

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.

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

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.

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 enjoy teaching football.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.

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

The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

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

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

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.

I've never played, on the field, any other position besides quarterback. Never been on a special team. Never been on defense.

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.

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.

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'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.