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" The word 'embarrassing' is an insulting word, to tell you the truth. "

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" 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 am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season. "

" Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. "

" I enjoy teaching football. "

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

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

" I'll always be a Colt. I always will be. That'll never change. "

" I'm the best Manning. "

" Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not. "

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

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

" 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 understand the seriousness of concussions. "

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

" I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them. "

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

" 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. "

" If any other part of your body has some weakness, you go, 'Well I can probably manage.' But when you're a quarterback, and it's your right hand, you're certainly concerned far as being able to do your job. "

" 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.' "

" 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 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. "

" My closest friends are from my high school days. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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