Super Bowl MVP Manning ready for repeat performance

By Steve Ginsburg

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Just hours after winning the Super Bowl and being named its MVP, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning said he was ready for a repeat performance.

"I'm happy today, I'm fired up," Manning told reporters on Monday. "I'm going to enjoy this moment. But you still want to have this feeling again.

"I will still have the same commitment to football (next season). I have to become a better quarterback. That's my goal.

"Towards the end of the season I was playing well but I have to do it over a whole season. I want to cut down on my mistakes."

Manning, 27, completed 19 of 34 passes for 255 yards while leading the two-touchdown underdog Giants (14-6) to a 17-14 win over the New England Patriots on Sunday.

The soft-spoken Manning guided the Giants to two clutch fourth-quarter touchdown drives to snap the Patriots' 18-game winning streak.

Manning's 13-yard TD strike to Plaxico Burress with 35 seconds left gave the Giants their first title since 1990 and ended the debate over whether the 2007 Patriots were the NFL's best team ever.

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