INDIANAPOLIS COLTS QUOTES
I’d really like to come here if you want me. But if you don’t, I promise you I’ll come back and kick your ass for the next 15 years.
–Peyton Manning
I only went to college for 2½years, but I think I know the meaning of the word voluntary.
–Peyton Manning
Running back Edgerrin James, responding to critics of his decision to workout in Miami rather than participate in the team’s voluntary off-season program in 2001.
–Peyton Manning
The football’s brown everywhere.
–Peyton Manning
Quarterback Peyton Manning to general manager Bill Polian and coach Jim Mora as the team continued to debate whether to select Manning or Ryan Leaf with the No. 1 overall pick in the 1998 draft
–Peyton Manning
We’re just a bunch of ragamuffins out there. That’s what everybody says.
–Peyton Manning
An emotional Manning at the March 7, 2012 press conference announcing the team would not pay a $28 million option, thus making him a free agent.
–Peyton Manning
Quarterback Jim Harbaugh as the Colts, heavy underdogs throughout the 1995 playoffs, upset San Diego and Kansas City on the road en route to a match-up with the Steelers in Pittsburgh in the AFC Championship game.
–Peyton Manning
Wide receiver Marvin Harrison when asked in 2004 if he was concerned signing a free-agent deal with another team would mean no longer catching passes from Manning. The Colts signed him to a seven-year, $67 million extension Dec. 8, 2004.
–Peyton Manning
As I go, I go with just a few words left to say, a few words I want to address to Colts fans everywhere. Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. I truly have enjoyed being your quarterback. Thank you.
–Peyton Manning