In the aftermath of Super Bowl 50, Carolina Panthers fans were stunned and Denver Broncos fans rejoiced as they watched their team dominate on the defensive end. Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning earned his second Super Bowl win and showed what a class act he is. To help celebrate ring number two, we compiled 30 Timeless Peyton Manning Quotes.
The final score of Super Bowl 50 found the Broncos besting the Panthers 24-10. Throughout the entire game, Manning showed his years of experience through the poise and professionalism on and off the field. Despite a year plagued with rumors of HGH use and injuries, Manning and his team rose to the challenge, played hard and shined on the big screen.
Since the Super Bowl 50 win, fans want to know if this was it for Manning and if he would be hanging up his uniform, however, Manning didn’t really give them too much of an answer. Instead, he told the reporters and fans that he wanted to enjoy the win and didn’t want to make an emotional decision. Many feel that Manning doesn’t have anything else to prove in the league and that he has always given his best on the field. While it’s unclear what the future holds for the Hall of Fame worthy quarterback, we’ll leave you with 30 Timeless Peyton Manning Quotes to hold you over. Check them out below.
“I’m gonna drink a lot of Budweiser tonight, Tracy, I promise you that.”
“Pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what the hell you’re doing.”
“My dad was a class person on and off the field. That’s the person I want to be.”
“You hear about how many fourth-quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.”
“My faith has been number one since I was 13 years old and heard from the pulpit on a Sunday morning in New Orleans a simple question: ‘If you died today, are you 100 percent sure you’d go to heaven?’”
“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.”
“My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for ‘Reggie-isms,’ kind of like ‘Yogi-isms.’ He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, ‘You mean ambidextrous, coach?'”
“You’ve got to remember what your priorities are. When you’re playing, what you do on the field is the most important thing.”
“If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.”
“Some players get more vocal about it—the Reggie Whites, for example—and some point to Heaven after scoring a touchdown and praise God after games. I have no problem with that. But I don’t do it, and don’t think it makes me any less a Christian. I just want my actions to speak louder.”
“I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway’s arm, Dan Marino’s release, maybe Troy Aikman’s drop-back, Brett Favre’s scrambling ability, Joe Montana’s two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.”
“Whenever people ask you where you’re from and you say New Orleans, it’s always going to create a conversation.”
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
“There were a lot of firsts, a lot of firsts for me this year. It’s weird in your 18th season to have so many firsts. But when you sign up to play, you sign up for everything. You learn about yourself and how you handle it. That’s been my theme all year: Just keep being a pro. I’ve been through a lot of stuff … but that’s what I drew on during this time: Be a pro. Handle it. And keep the faith.”
“When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you’re not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That’s football. That’s why everybody plays it.”
“Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they’re bitter. Not me.”
“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 would like to think I will be a guy who knows when it’s time to stop. I don’t want to be a guy who hung on. I do not have a goal mind of a year or a statistic.”
“It’s not wanting to win that makes you a winner; it’s refusing to fail.”
“Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else’s injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn’t hurt?”
“I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 – significantly better. I got better throughout the season.”
“I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it’s with great pride.”
“This might be my last rodeo.”
“I don’t like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there’s an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.”
“It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it’s just an absolutely huge win.”
“The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.”
“Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It’s about accountability. I hear stuff about the ‘toughest quarterback in the league’ and all that; what’s that mean?”
“If people think I’m a laid-back guy, that’s their mistake.”
“I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don’t agree with. I’m thinking, ‘Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.'”
“I’ve been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I’m not sure you can have a legacy when you’re 25 years old. Even 37. I’d like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I’m not even 100 percent sure what the word even means.”