Quotes from Archie Manning

Cooper and Peyton really competed a lot, they fought a lot. But Eli was so much younger. He's the little brother.

That's the one thing before parenthood that no one really impressed upon me, that all of my children would be so different.

If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

My advice for parents is to support your children, make sure they are having fun. Support them and be there for them. Give them encouragement and make it a life lesson that along the way they are learning to make good decisions and do the right thing.

I'm a firm believer the the first two tenets of effective child-rearing boil down to "spend a lot of time with your children" and "cherish them," because, one, they need you when they're growing, and, two, they're going to be up and gone before you realize it.

Kids are doing more in their offseason. That's what the college quarterbacks, the pro quarterbacks do. That's how you get better.

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.

The quarterbacks who are picked in the first round and are declared - and I don't like the word - busts, it's not that the scouts were wrong about their ability or their potential. But commitment is such a huge part of it.

We just take pride that our sons have worked hard and they handle their position as a quarterback.

Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

We never knew we'd have kids playing pro football or going to Super Bowls. That wasn't ever a part of our plan in raising kids, so we really feel blessed.

I'm glad I got to play 15 years. I'm not scarred by the fact I didn't do better, or win more. I don't even talk about it, other people do.

Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.

Gosh, I loved playing.

Drew Bledsoe is a great talent. He had some fantastic years early in his career.

When Peyton played, he was a grinder. I mean he was up early and late.

No quarterback ever won a championship that did it all by himself.

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.

I've always told my kids to have fun.

Success, you know, is a relative thing.

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.

With Eli - and all of my sons - I wanted to impress that as they grow older, they are going to have important decisions to make and at decision time, you can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right.

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.