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" Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I'm the best Manning. "

" You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Football's been such a part of my life. It's allowed me to meet so many people and do so many things. "

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

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

" I was truly honored to be a part of that game, to be playing the 50th Super Bowl. "

" 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. "

" I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL. "

" In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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've learned a lot from my mistakes, stumbles, and losses in football. "

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

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

" My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?' "

" I don't want to retire. I still want to play. "