A biography for Peyton Manninghasn’t been written yet.
“In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.”
“I've been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I'm not sure you can have a legacy when you're 25 years old. Even 37. I'd like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I'm not even 100 percent sure what the word even means.”
“You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“Everyone should play like Adrian Peterson. This guy does everything full speed. Pro Bowl - promoting himself for MVP.”
“I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.”
“I don't believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured.”
“I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. I write a letter every now and then, you know, pick out somebody and drop them a line, because I always like receiving letters.”
“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.”
“The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.”
“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.”
“There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.”
“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.”
“I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Each game in the postseason has its own identity.”
“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.”
“The one year the Lord took my greatest physical gift, he gave me the greatest gift you could have in children. So that was a real equalizer. And I would take that trade any day of the week.”