Peyton Manning Quotes (126 Quotes)

When I went to Tennessee, I could name you every quarterback in the SEC for the last 20 years. We had to teach Eli the 12 teams in the SEC before he went to Ole Miss.

A loss always leaves a bitter taste in your mouth and, if you have any kind of pride, you can't wait to get rid of it.

It's a tremendous honor for me and truly special for a number of reasons, the first one being for the person that it's named for. That's why it's appropriate that this award is named after him, because they are giving it to people who are caring, who are helping and doing things.

Right after we beat Jacksonville last Sunday, he addressed the players and said the focus would be just like every other week, a business-like approach. That's the focus of this team. It's truly been a one-week-at-a-time approach. I know that's a boring answer, but that's why we've been able to take care of business.

Everybody said a team prayer for Coach Dungy and his family. It's laying on the hearts of all the players here today.

I don't care if it's pre-season or whatever, you want to at least play well. Offensively, we were much improved.

Certain guys have different gears they switch to, ... They just light it up. You know, the jets don't fly over in preseason games. They wait until the real games, and some guys get tuned up for that.

The last time we had a tough ball game with obviously two new teams against each other. Pittsburgh is playing well and any time you get to the playoffs, especially in these later rounds, they are close ball games.

I'm not into judging or defining careers in the middle of a career. I hope to play for a number of more years. I am not looking back on my first eight years thinking about what is going to happen in years to come.

It feels like college when you're going to lose the seniors. I certainly like our team this year. We had good guys, guys you wanted to win for and win with.

Any time a team gets back a player that's been around a long time and has made a lot of plays, it's a boost for their team.

Any time you get turnovers and that kind of field position, you want to score touchdowns and we did, ... They weren't letting us pass downfield. It used to be teams wouldn't let us run the ball and we had to throw. Now it's the opposite. They won't let us pass. But the defense is doing its job.

I take it very seriously, kind of my role as an ambassador to the university,

It will be exciting for football. I think it will be fun. During the week, ask me by Wednesday, and I'll probably have a different answer for you.

Chris is going to do a great job for the Dolphins. When he was here in Indianapolis, I appreciated his input in our offense, and I know our tight ends, Marcus Pollard and Dallas Clark , did as well. He brings knowledge and passion to the game and will be

Our defense did an excellent job slowing them down at times,

I've not been back to a game in Knoxville for a long time because I was usually going to see brother Eli, so this is going to be fun.

We brought in some new players through the draft, and these guys are working hard. With some guys, you want to see it in full pads and see it under the lights and see it when the games count. But it's still going to be win as a team, and if we get beat, it will be as a team. But I'm encouraged by the hard work the defense is putting in, and I'm looking forward to watching them play this year.

We didn't punch it into the end zone but we had two good drives getting it down there so you can always take some good things from the game. There are some things that we can improve on as well.

We do want to establish good balance with our running game and passing game and get into the end zone. We also want to keep winning.

All we are is off to a good start. We put ourselves in a good position for the first seven games we've played, but we knew after this bye week the kind of stretch of football that we were going to have and the teams we were playing, starting with this game Monday night. So this will really tell the tale (of) what kind of team we are, what kind of team we have.

It takes time to move on from a game like this, make peace with the football gods and move on to next season.

We stuck to our plan and it worked. We just had to keep plugging and plugging, and we got into a little groove in the second half.

I hope I can always call Marvin a teammate, ... It's hard to envision lining up there and not seeing No. 88 out on the right. It's a very comfortable feeling as a quarterback.

Winding down You never can tell with him, ... He's such a specimen athletically. I've seen, up close, what he's capable of and he still has some burst.

You love everything to be perfect, but they made a few plays and we worked through it and got a good win on the road, ... That is what good teams do. The idea was just to take care of business, and we did that.