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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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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!
- Changing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The game of football is always changing.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate football.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just take pride that our sons have worked hard and they handle their position as a quarterback.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are doing more in their offseason. That's what the college quarterbacks, the pro quarterbacks do. That's how you get better.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are just so passionate about football in the South. Great rivalries through the years. Unbelievable rivalries. It's healthy.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coaches help every facet of a person's life.
- Big
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I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.
- Miss
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I cherish my time at Ole Miss. I cherish those four years.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.
- He
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Cooper and Peyton really competed a lot, they fought a lot. But Eli was so much younger. He's the little brother.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a good daddy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never get used to losing.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, the years fly by, that's just natural.
- Loved
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Gosh, I loved playing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I could do better than Peyton was run.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't try to raise QBs we just tried to raise kids.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bobby Petrino, I think he's an outstanding coach.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I was a running QB. We were a sprint out offense, so I had a big transition going into pro ball.
- NFL
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a QB in the NFL, you'll be subjected to criticism.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '84 Bears were just like the '85 Bears, they just didn't win the Super Bowl. The defense was the same.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always told my kids to have fun.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no fun when you lose.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've enjoyed so little success as a professional player.
- Nov 07, 2020
Success, you know, is a relative thing.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt my wife had class and a lot more culture than I do, and I've seen that rub off on Eli.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emeril Lagasse is one of my great friends.
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be one of these pushy daddies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Orleans people love their weekends.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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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.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the one thing before parenthood that no one really impressed upon me, that all of my children would be so different.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We wanted our children to have as normal a life as we could.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Played
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, you have to have some physical ability to play quarterback in the NFL.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mardi Gras, the drinking, the partying - that scared me.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Saints - it gave people joy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get a new coach; you do things a little differently.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't throw out advice unless I am asked.
- Grant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Bud Grant.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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Frankly I've been in these situations where the locker room wasn't good. That's really the worst of times.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.
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- Nov 07, 2020