A biography for Archie Manninghasn’t been written yet.
“You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.”
“New Orleans people love their weekends.”
“That's the one thing before parenthood that no one really impressed upon me, that all of my children would be so different.”
“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.”
“Growing up in a small town of two thousand people, there wasn't too many ways to get in trouble. But I found some. We got caught stealing green plums from this old lady's yard.”
“Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.”
“When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.”
“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.”
“The Saints - it gave people joy.”
“We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.”
“We didn't try to raise QBs we just tried to raise kids.”
“I don't throw out advice unless I am asked.”
“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.”
“Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.”
“Gosh, I loved playing.”
“Cooper and Peyton really competed a lot, they fought a lot. But Eli was so much younger. He's the little brother.”
“Coaches help every facet of a person's life.”
“I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.”
“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.”
“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.”