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

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" 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 cherished my time playing high school sports. "

" 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. "

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

" I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed. "

" The finger lick is just a really bad habit - I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill me if I do it at dinner one more time. I look like an animal about to dig in. "

" I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It truly has been an honor to play in Indianapolis. I do love it here. I love the fans, and I will always enjoy having played for such a great team. "

" I'm the best Manning. "

" I don't believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun. "

" Over my NFL career, I've had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak. "

" 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've put a lot of thought into being a leader. "

" 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 believe in having a separate workout for quarterbacks. Other players hate that. "

" 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. "