Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning
Peyton Williams Manningis a former American football quarterback who played 18 seasons in the National Football League. Considered to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time, he spent the majority of his career with Indianapolis Colts. In his last four seasons, he played with the Denver Broncos. Manning played college football for the University of Tennessee, leading the Tennessee Volunteers to the 1997 SEC Championship in his senior season. He is the second son of former NFL quarterback Archie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth24 March 1976
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
It's a good start, but that's all it is. It doesn't guarantee anything.
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.
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.
Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
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.
(Offensive coordinator) Tom Moore made a good point: In the NFL, you don't pick up where you left off, ... You have to go out and earn it this year.
I think we've surprised some teams with our patience this year, ... In the past, we've been a throw the ball down the field offense because that's what defenses have allowed us to do. ...That's the nice thing about this offense and (coordinator) Tom (Moore) and his play calling. We usually call what's working. Games are shorter now. We're having longer drives.
I think sometimes guys coming from college think if you lose one game you're out of the mix, but if you lose two or three or four in the NFL, you'll still be OK, ... It's not really that way anymore.
I think we're more of a team and kind of feed off each other, ... It's definitely the best camaraderie we've had since I've been here eight years.
Players were surprised and upset emotionally about it. Everybody said a team prayer for coach Dungy and his family.
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 remember a game against Denver in 2001, he had an in route, but he gave me one of these ... and he was gone.
I'm big into kind of who is dictating to who, ... There were probably a few series in the first game where they were kind of dictating to us. As an offense, you want to be the one dictating.
I can't tell you how much I studied these guys the last two weeks. We expected to play Pittsburgh. I really studied them hard and just really, just tried to prepare as hard as I possibly could. It's so disappointing when you don't win the game.