Manning believes he first visited a hospital on a "team-required" trip while at Ole Miss. "I just remember the feeling after I left," he said. "You see a few of the smiles on the kids' faces when they see someone they might look up to come in the room, and then you hear the responses from the nurses or from the parents later on say they couldn't stop talking about when they got to meet you, or they were so excited for the next days they had a permanent smile on their face after they hadn't maybe smiled in weeks."