Top 50 Archie Manning Quotes

We never knew we’d have kids playing pro football or going to Super Bowls. That wasn’t ever a part of our plan in raising kids, so we really feel blessed.

I’m as proud as the next guy, but I’ve always been a little skeptical of the daddies who walk around talking about what great athletes their kids are.

When I showed interest in sports, my dad handled it right. I lost my dad when I was nineteen years old. Up until then, his policy on sports was that you can go out for any sport you want to – but don’t even think about quitting. If you don’t like it, you’re going to stick it out.

I cherish my time at Ole Miss. I cherish those four years.

I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.

I’ve enjoyed so little success as a professional player.

We didn’t try to raise QBs we just tried to raise kids.

Mardi Gras, the drinking, the partying – that scared me.

My advice for parents is to support your children, make sure they are having fun. Support them and be there for them. Give them encouragement and make it a life lesson that along the way they are learning to make good decisions and do the right thing.

I’ve always told my kids to have fun.

New Orleans people love their weekends.

People say how unbelievable and enjoyable this whole thing must be. But watching your children play quarterback, putting themselves on the line every game, getting smacked around and bloodied up… it’s very, very hard.

I’m happy for my kids getting postseason opportunities, for both of them playing in the Super Bowl back to back. I never would have envisioned anything like that.

I don’t throw out advice unless I am asked.

I wasn’t supposed to run as much as I did in the NFL. But it turned out that all that scrambling I had done in college became necessary in the NFL. It wasn’t by design. It was because I was running for my life!

God that’s a great game. I wish I’d played my whole career in flag football.

Peyton’s pretty good at figuring stuff out.

Obviously, you have to have some physical ability to play quarterback in the NFL.

I think the first thing that my sons will tell you, that I never tried to be their coach. And I didn’t give them as much advice as some people might think, being a former player myself and a former quarterback. If they asked, I gave them my opinion.

I didn’t want to be one of these pushy daddies.

We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.

I was a good daddy.

I love New York.

You get a new coach; you do things a little differently.

When Peyton played, he was a grinder. I mean he was up early and late.

Drew Bledsoe is a great talent. He had some fantastic years early in his career.

Success, you know, is a relative thing.

I’ve watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

You never get used to losing.

I’m very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.

The game of football is always changing.

When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.

It’s a hard time, winning the Super Bowl or losing the Super Bowl.

The ’84 Bears were just like the ’85 Bears, they just didn’t win the Super Bowl. The defense was the same.

The Saints – it gave people joy.

There are all sorts of challenging conversations as a parent and it’s never easy. I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don’t happen again.

The best advice I try to give a young quarterback is, you need to know what you’re doing. You need to know what you’re doing, because if you know where to go with the football, you can get rid of it and throw it and you won’t get hit.

As you get older, I have seen it a lot… fighting among siblings. The reason is usually money or spouses. But my kids don’t fall into that trap.

Emeril Lagasse is one of my great friends.

Kids are doing more in their offseason. That’s what the college quarterbacks, the pro quarterbacks do. That’s how you get better.

I really don’t think I have lived my life as an open book.

The only thing I could do better than Peyton was run.

Frankly I’ve been in these situations where the locker room wasn’t good. That’s really the worst of times.

No quarterback ever won a championship that did it all by himself.

When you have a son playing, you pull real hard for his team.

Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.

With Eli – and all of my sons – I wanted to impress that as they grow older, they are going to have important decisions to make and at decision time, you can’t be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what’s right.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.

TPC Louisiana, where the Zurich Classic is held, is an outstanding course.

The best we ever did was 8-8. But my career was not as dreadful as people make it out to be. You don’t see any scars on Archie Manning.