Eli Manning Quotes

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback.

I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on the pitch!

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There's times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you're passing it.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

I think there are different kinds of quarterbacks, and if you look at any offense, there are different kind of quarterbacks, but you play to the strengths of whoever the quarterback is for the team.

I think my game isn't very flashy, but the test of time for the position of quarterback is how fast can you get the ball out of your hands to the right guy? And I think I do that better than everyone else.

Allegri is very good at managing the locker room in the most difficult moments of a season, to make the team understand how to manage the time of a match.

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

I believe I am a player that can organise the game well for my team.

When you're dropping back and everything's going on, part of you wants to force it, but you have to make the right decision and not force the ball and sometimes throw it away.

I pass and I move, I help you, I look for you, I stop, I raise my head, I look and, above all, I open up the pitch...The one who has the ball, is the master of the game...Thats the school of Joan Vilà, of Albert Benaiges, of Johan Cruijff, of Pep Guardiola

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.

I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.

We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

Adrian Peterson is redefining the way teams defend the running ability.

I'm trying to coach the team and that's what I want to do.

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.

The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.