Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Antonio Burress is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers eighth overall in the 2000 NFL Draft and also played for the New York Giants and the New York Jets. He caught the game-winning catch of Super Bowl XLII as the Giants beat the New England Patriots. He played college football at Michigan State...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth12 August 1977
CityNorfolk, VA
everybody last sure treat week
Last week is last week. I treat each day like a new day, and I'm pretty sure everybody else does, too.
based black diamond drives drove fancy liked perception player seen team wears
I mean, I don't think I was liked as a person. I was kind of seen as a black kid, young African-American, cornrows, drives fancy cars, wears diamond earrings, things like that. They just kind of based their perception off of what I drove and what I did and things like that. All those things were never a part of any other player on that team but me.
achieve averaged catch games last less opportunity people per receiver yards
Some people say I may have underachieved when I was in Pittsburgh, ... But you have to have the opportunity to achieve anything, period, much less overachieve. And I think I was a big-play receiver in Pittsburgh. I only averaged 20 yards per catch (actually 19.8 in 11 games last year).
coaches definitely dreamed family growing kid lost monday night players playing scattered team
As a kid growing up, you always dreamed of playing on 'Monday Night Football,' ... This is a different situation. You've got players and coaches on their team that lost homes, have scattered family members. They definitely have a lot to come out and play for, and doing it on a Monday night stage, because of the situation, they're definitely going to be emotional.
bring hands shot took
I took it as a challenge. In my position, I took it on myself that if he didn't get his hands on the ball, I had a shot at it to bring it in.
few great plays throw
It was just a great throw by Eli. I'm here to make a few big plays for the team.
build few needed plays
We needed things like that to build our confidence. Make a few plays like that, we'll do something in the playoffs.
bites football lull plays winning
We all know that we've been one play away from winning the football game. I think we know that there's one or two plays that kind of comes back and bites us a little bit. If we don't have a lull on those one or two plays, then we win the football game.
balls four suit three
Three or four balls just doesn't suit me very well.
none regular season sit time worry
The regular season is here now so you don't have time to worry about none of that anyway, ... You've just got to go out and you've got to make it right. You can't sit back and say 'Oh, we've got time.'
ball basically thrown worried
When I was in Pittsbugh, I was basically worried about how many times the ball would be thrown my way,
kindness respond wish
We've got kind of one of those offenses where we respond when we need to. I just wish we could've responded a little earlier.
early entire games hard routes work
We work hard on our routes in practice. We come out early before games and go through our entire route tree.
order
We've got to get things in order off the field, too.