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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. "

Peyton Manning

Thought

Way

Retirement

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" I have been tremendously impacted and influenced by my coaches. It's nice to play for people that are going to support you. "

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

" Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Peyton Manning

Good

Legacy

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

Peyton Manning

People

Personality

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Peyton Manning

Long

Better

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

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

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

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Faith

Important

" 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 cherished my time playing high school sports. "

" When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Peyton Manning

Friend

Thought

" Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt? "

" 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. "

Peyton Manning

You

Legacy

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" You certainly miss a lot of things about Indianapolis. I miss a lot of friends in Indy. St. Elmo's. The Slippery Noodle. Amalfi's. "