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I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence...

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Peyton Manning
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: March 24
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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.
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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.
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If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower.
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Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.
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Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.
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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.
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I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.
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If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.
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I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.
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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.
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I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.
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Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed.
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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?'
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Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.
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I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.
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If your team is going to win, you need to play better than the other quarterback.
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Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.
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If people think I'm a laid-back guy, that's their mistake.
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In life, and in sports, we all know that nothing lasts forever.
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