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 Orleans people love their weekends.

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.

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.

That's the one thing before parenthood that no one really impressed upon me, that all of my children would be so different.

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.

We wanted our children to have as normal a life as we could.

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.

When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.

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.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

Drew Bledsoe is a great talent. He had some fantastic years early in his career.

No quarterback ever won a championship that did it all by himself.

Obviously, you have to have some physical ability to play quarterback in the NFL.

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.

Mardi Gras, the drinking, the partying - that scared me.

The Saints - it gave people joy.

Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.

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.

Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.

You get a new coach; you do things a little differently.

I don't throw out advice unless I am asked.

I loved Bud Grant.

Indianapolis is a great Midwestern city. Great people. Warm, friendly people.

I love New York.

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.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.

Frankly I've been in these situations where the locker room wasn't good. That's really the worst of times.

There's nothing worse than seeing someone hurt out on the football field.

I've always said, other than my dad, coaches had the greatest impact on me.

I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.

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.

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.

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.