Peyton Manning Quotes

Football's not forever.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

I got a small window of time to be an NFL quarterback. Some day when I'm done playing I can sit back and look at what we accomplished, or how does it feel, or what's it like.

In football, nothing lasts forever.

When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.

Time takes all and gives all.

You can't do sports for the rest of your life; I don't care how good you are. You can be the best ever, but it's still going to go away.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

I believe change is the only constant in life, and there is a place and time for everything.

I love it right now. I love being retired. I think I retired at a perfect time in my career. Now I get an opportunity to spend time with my wife and kids and get to be very supportive of them. My son is playing football right now. My daughter is in gymnastics. Both are competing at a high level. So it came at the right time.

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Getting older is a fact of life.

What's good for you one day will not necessarily still be good for you the day after.

Everything has a cycle and a season.