Eli Manning Quotes (102 Quotes)

I struggled at times, ... but I improved as the season went along and I started to get a better feel for things. I still have a long way to go, but I am making improvements. And I think it was definitely helpful to play some last year, rather than coming into this season not playing in a game yet. Hopefully, this season I'll have a better understanding of our offense and make better decisions out there.

My arm feels fine. You still have to be aggressive, but if something's ugly and not there, you can't force it in.

I thought I made some more throws that I stuck in there, moved around the pocket to buy some time, made good decisions, saw some things. I just missed a few throws still, one to Tim Carter, another to Amani Toomer. Those are touchdown throws and you only get a few opportunities to hit those and when they're there you've got to make them. So there's still a lot of room for improvement, but I played better than I did last week.

He knew what was important to him, and he made his decision and stood by it.

He was a great guy to learn from. Just how he acted as a professional, the way he handled the media and all. And when things got bad for me, he said all the right things.

We don't know if it's under water or what the hurricane did to it. It's hard thinking about the place you grew up in. You don't know if it's still standing or what its condition is.

I think he's been what a coach should be. He wants everything done the right way. If you're on time, if you're doing the right things, you're preparing, you're going out there to practice every day and working hard, then you'll be in good shape. That's kind of the way I've always expected a football coach to be.

I'm very happy about it and looking forward to the next couple of years. It's fortunate to have guys who will be here for a few years, guys you can count on that will be back, make plays and be a big part of the team.

That could be a factor, ... I don't want to blame anything or say there's a reason I'm not playing well. I've just got to go out there and play better.

I'm still a young quarterback, ... I'm only in my eighth game starting. I'm still going to make mistakes. I'm going to see different looks every game that I'm going to have to make decisions on.

I wasn't thinking about where I was going to live. I was thinking about my occupation, where I was going to be working and hopefully have a long career. And I didn't think San Diego was the place for me to go.

I guess we picked the wrong year to go 7-1 in the SEC.

Every game he just makes so many outstanding plays for us. Not only with his runs, but with his pass receiving. Hes our work horse and we are going to keep feeding him.

He's got a playoff team, we're coming off a 6-10 season. When he talks to the media, they're talking about getting to the Super Bowl. I'm not getting those questions. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that we're trying to get better. We're in two different leagues.

It is shocking. We haven't had a performance like this before. We've always found a way to move the ball and score points, and today we just couldn't do anything. I wish I had a reason why. We've had bad games before where the next week you come in and work on something and hopefully get better, but this performance is one we'll have to think about for the next several months.

I still have a lot of room for improvement on things and being a more consistent player, ... but as the season goes on, I'll be able to improve on that. But I think I am better than I was last year.

It doesn't happen automatically, ... Sometimes it comes from hard work and repetition. After being with someone for a long period of time you start to get it. Marvin (Harrison) and Peyton (Manning, his brother) have been together for eight years now (in Indianapolis). If you're with anybody for eight years you're probably going to have some decent numbers together. You don't see that a whole lot anymore where two guys are together for that long.

We set the play up and we thought we'd give it a shot. With Plax's size and speed, all I did was throw it up and gave him a shot.

I'll always remember the way he always acted as a professional, the way he dealt with the media and the game plan each week.

I was glad I could help. Just lift their spirits a little bit. ... It was tough just to see your hometown, to see areas that you remember playing baseball in and growing up around and seeing it under water -- just seeing people walking the streets.

Our high school used to play there every year. When I got around, we canceled that. We never played there. I grew up going to all the games with my dad. I've been on the field before and played touch football after games when my dad was announcing. It would have been fun to play in your home town. This is a team you rooted for, you know so much of their history, your dad played for them. I grew up a Saints fan.

I think my teammates have trust in me that I can handle things, that it's hard to get under my skin.

My dad got brought into the situation, and he was getting a lot of bad credit and being harassed quite a bit, ... He wasn't a part of this. It wasn't his decision. He didn't talk me into this. It was my decision. It was my thoughts. He had nothing to do with it, so I'd like to clear that up.

He's been a good player in this league for a long period of time and I've always enjoyed watching him play. For me, I didn't know what was going to happen. Obviously, things were going on and he didn't feel like he wanted to be here. I didn't pay much attention to it.

Kerry's a talented player who makes every throw there is. I know he took this team to a Super Bowl one year. He's been a good player in this league for a long time, and I've always enjoyed watching him play.

This was a big win for me and the team. Every game you learn something on how to deal with things. Things weren't going well for us, but we kept our composure and we hit some plays.

Their front four is talented and we know Peppers is a good player, so I know I have to get the ball out quickly. I can't be holding it forever back there. I have confidence that our guys will get it blocked up and we'll be able to move the ball the way we want to.

Just seeing the people and hearing some stories they had of not knowing where their loved ones were was terrible.

That was a big time drive where we put some plays together well,

We didn't play well at all in the first half aside from the first few minutes, but we were still only six points down at halftime, ... We felt if we got the ball first and went down and took the lead, it was a whole new ballgame.

Yeah, whatever I say, I don't think it's going to make a big difference to the fans, ... They're going to dislike me or boo me or whatever. I knew that when I made that decision. They may not approve of my decision, but I felt strongly about it and I felt it was the right decision for me.

That performance is not OK by me. I have to play better, ... I can't turn the ball over and give points away like that.

And it's something that doesn't happen in a month or two. Hopefully we can get that connection between me and Plax in a short period of time.

It's something I try to keep up with, to make sure I'm finding lanes to throw, ... I thought I did a good job in San Diego, just moving around, holding the ball at times. I didn't have to move a whole lot . I thought I got the ball out quick when there was pressure. I just have to continue to get better.

I've had ups and downs, that's just the way football goes. You can't win them all. It's a matter of learning each week and taking everything in. I'm not going to make every play, I'm going to make some mistakes, but as long as I'm not making the costly ones that are going to hurt the team, I'll be all right.

When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

I was just a little off key with the receivers, ... The receivers were doing things I wasn't expecting them to do, or we were doing one little thing wrong. We've got to be on the exact same page on every play.

Every game is not going to be where you go out and make every play,

Obviously getting two touchdowns, you can't get much better than that and you hope for that every week. It's a good thing to have that weapon. Even if they don't score, but they give me good field position, that's a help.

In New York it really was a chance to showcase what I could still do, ... I tried to present myself with an opportunity like here in Arizona where I could play the game the way I wanted to, and hopefully write my own story - it didn't have anything to do

That's amazing considering how many things must have been going through their heads, not knowing what's going to happen in the future,

Last week I might have been a little rusty. I hadn't practiced those two weeks before with the (shoulder) injury. We got off to a great start, 14-0, we just have to stay more consistent. We had some missed throws, just little things that are holding us back.

It's going to be special playing the Saints. I was looking forward to playing in the Dome though. ... I was looking forward to having the opportunity to go in there and play - Peyton's played twice there as a pro - but it's still going to be a special game. It is the team that I grew up rooting for and the team that my dad played for.

You never know when his big game is going to be, and he has got to stay ready, ... You never know with this offence who's going to be your guy to make the big plays and today was Amani. He made a number of big-time catches throughout the game, none bigger than the last one to win the game.

I'm upset. You prepare and hope that you go out there in a big game and big situation and play well, and put your team in a situation to win. And today I didn't do that. I didn't play well. I didn't make enough plays. I made too many mistakes for us to win today.

It's good that we won, but the offense did not play well, ... My performance is not OK by me. I've got to play better. I can't turn the ball over like that and give points away.

Right now I could probably go and throw, but I might have to make adjustments to the way I throw it to avoid pain, maybe not consciously, and then it could end up being worse.

It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

Everything I'd heard about it, ... It's beautiful, it's got great weather, it's a great place to live.

We couldn't get anything going. We couldn't get in a rhythm. We couldn't convert any third downs. We couldn't take advantage of any opportunities. We'd make mental mistakes, either by me or someone else. You can't beat a good team like that.