Archie Manning Quotes

As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.

The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.