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

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

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

" Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. "

" 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. "

" I'm the best Manning. "

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

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

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

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

" I revere football. I love the game. You don't have to wonder if I will miss it. I will absolutely miss 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I understand the seriousness of concussions. "

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

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

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