Indianapolis Colts - The best Quotes and Phrases

I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.

I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

In this house we say "please", "thank you", and "Go Colts!"

Don't ask me why I'm a Colts fan. Ask yourself why you're not!

I was born a Colts fan and I will die a Colts fan.

Which Football team is the best and why is it the Indianapolis Colts?

What do you call 53 millionaires around a TV watching the Super Bowl?
The Indianapolis Colts!

There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.

If you work hard and you play well, all of those critics will quiet themselves pretty quickly.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

The most valuable player is the one who makes the most players valuable.

I'm not 23 anymore. But the defensive ends and linebackers chasing me are. If I had to choose between youth and experience, I'd take experience every time.

I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise, and, naturally, my speed.

Santa: "You're interviewing to become Santa Claus."
Manning: "Yes, I can't wait to rub this in Brady's face."

I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I worked hard at that. That made me good enough to play in college and then I wanted to be a good college quarterback. During college, I played well enough to make it into the NFL. I never took it for granted and really wanted to play hard at each level and I have always had a lot of fun doing what I wanted to do.

To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It's often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It's the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.

I remember playing a high school basketball game where I didn't eat anything for breakfast. I ate, you know, like a PB and J and some chips for lunch and nothing before the game. I didn't make it through the first quarter. I wish I hadn't have learned that way, but it did leave a lasting impression.

I just grow a terrible mustache, so I try to use my neckbeard as a substitute. And when I get lazy, I don't shave that often.

Breakfast is so important, so I'll make an omelet with cheese and deli meats, and then I'll eat muesli and yogurt mixed with fruit or oatmeal with fruit - and then a side of baked beans.

The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.

I was a bad kid, getting into a lot of wild stuff.

Our idea of fun wasn't going to Disney World. It was, you want to play basketball, go outside, and make a goal. You want to play baseball? Take the old broom, take the handle off, take a tennis ball that we found somewhere, and go play baseball. We were forced to create things.

I understand Pat Mahomes is off to a good start. I'm not ready to crown him four games into his career, but he's definitely playing well.

Momma told me, 'I'm going to town. Don't touch the trash in the backyard,' because we used to burn our trash. So I'm going to do mama a favor. I light the trash and go back inside to watch Ohio State and LSU play. And something said, 'You know what, at halftime, go check on it.' And fire is about 8 feet from the back door.

When you get hit in football, you got two options: You can stay down or you can get the F up. I know this group as fighters. I know this group will get up.

If everybody could do it, everybody would do it.

Philadelphia is a hard working city. It's a blue-collar city and we tend to think that's the type of team we have. We got tough guys everywhere, we have guys who give it up for each other everywhere.

To have Jalen Hurts out there is like having Michael Jordan out there. This guy leads. He brings this calmness to the entire team.

We win together. We celebrate together, and we pick each other up together. Everything's together. Together, together, together. There wasn't one phase that let one phase down. It was offense, defense, coaching, everything. We're in this together and the teams that stick together through the ups and downs of the season are the teams that continue to grow together.

We're playing for each other, and that's our greatest motivation.

I'm gonna drop 18 on his head. And I'm gonna call him Eli after I do it.

What did Tennessee?
Same thing Arkansas.

The Denver Broncos are all child molesters.

Scott Hanson: "If it comes down to it, Brock. It's late in the fourth quarter, are you prepared to disappoint Taylor Swift?"
Brock Purdy: "Yes."

We're not done, dawg, I want three!

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

We don't have to say we're great. Our 5 rings say it for us.

You gotta fight... for your right... to Lombaaardi!

Quick funny story: I threw a touchdown to this dude to end the game. And he looked at me and he had no idea. I said, "Dude, we just won the Super Bowl!"

It's been a long year to get to this point and we got it done today. We can't wait to get to Vegas!

I'm the top receiver in the game. There's no question about it.