Quotes by Archie Manning - Page 2

Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Quarterback
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Kids are doing more in their offseason. That's what the college quarterbacks, the pro quarterbacks do. That's how you get better.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Quarterback
Pro
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People are just so passionate about football in the South. Great rivalries through the years. Unbelievable rivalries. It's healthy.
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Healthy
Passionate
Unbelievable
Great Football People
Rivalries
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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.
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Best People See
Archie
Dreadful
Scars
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I'm glad I got to play 15 years. I'm not scarred by the fact I didn't do better, or win more. I don't even talk about it, other people do.
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Glad
Better People Win
Scarred
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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.
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Sibling
Spouses
Trap
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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.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Skeptical
Athletes
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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.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Bowls
Pro Football
Pro
Super Bowls
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I don't feel any different than Tom Brady's daddy just because I played. I don't think I'm any different from any other father who's got a son out there playing.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Brady
Daddy
Tom
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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.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Super Bowl
Bowl
Envisioned
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When I see siblings in some families not get along, I just struggle with that. My wife says I need to be more real about it, but I just can't believe it when it happens.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Sibling
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Growing up in a small town of two thousand people, there wasn't too many ways to get in trouble. But I found some. We got caught stealing green plums from this old lady's yard.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Caught
Small Town
Thousand
Lady
Yard
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As a family, we didn't get into the celebrity thing. That's not what we wanted for the boys. We wanted them to play everything they could, be involved in as many school events as they could.
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Celebrity Thing
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My wife, Olivia, always thought I was one day going to go into coaching. But after playing until I was 37, I didn't want to subject my family to that nomad life. I think I definitely could have done it.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Olivia
Life Family Wife
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You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.
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Decision
Perfect
Priorities
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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!
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Nfl
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Back in 1983, quarterback Tommy Kramer got hurt and the Minnesota Vikings traded for me. The plan was for me to play, but I got something called Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder, and wound up on injured reserve.
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Disorder
Graves
Injured
Minnesota
Quarterback
Me Back Something
Reserve
Tommy
Traded
Wound
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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.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Enjoyable
Quarterback
Unbelievable
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The quarterbacks who are picked in the first round and are declared - and I don't like the word - busts, it's not that the scouts were wrong about their ability or their potential. But commitment is such a huge part of it.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Quarterback
Round
Huge Part
Picked
Scouts
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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.
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Evaluate
Important Decisions
Sons
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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.
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Quarterback
Rid
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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.
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Children
Punishment
Thinking
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The Saints are doing a good job adjusting. I think their focus is on trying to make the best of their season, but also to try and help the people of New Orleans in the process. From everything I've seen and heard they are doing a good job of it.
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Jobs
New Orleans
Thinking
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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.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Former
Quarterback
First Thing
Sons
The First Thing
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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.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Encouragement
Having Fun
Life Lesson
Right Thing
Life Good Learning
Do The Right Thing
Lesson
The Right Thing
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I've said publicly, and it's true, I've had a lot of wonderful things come my way. But personally, the greatest thing I ever accomplished was when I was named the starting quarterback at Ole Miss. That was my childhood dream, as it was thousands of kids in Mississippi.
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Accomplished
Mississippi
Quarterback
Wonderful Things
Named
Childhood Dream
Greatest Thing
Ole
Publicly
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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.
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Nineteen
Quitting
Handled
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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.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Discipline
Punishment
Conversations
Main Thing
Your Child
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