Plaxico Burress Quotes (42 Quotes)

I make those plays every day in practice. I just didn't make it.

She drove a public school bus for 13, 14 years, every day, then would come home and cook, and she wouldn't eat because there wasn't enough food for all of us,

I watched the guy Macklin on film and thought I could get by him.

It kind of seemed like everything was thrown on my back off of one play that I didn't make, ... and I took that kind of personal, from the people in that city and some of the things that were said about me.

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.

Everybody knows we just put up probably the ugliest 400 yards that an offense can put up. I've never been on a team where we can just put up 300, 400 yards so easily and make it look so ugly. That just goes to show that if we can just go out and be flawless, nobody will be able to stop us.

I didn't really understand those things until I was older. But just to come from something like that, with a person like that, willing to sacrifice everything for the people she loved. That's why I am the way I am.

Our offense has to go out and be crisp, be sharp. We have to do everything we can, not so much to pick up the defense, but to give us some momentum heading into the playoffs.

(The opportunity for completions has) definitely been there. But for some reason we've kind of stayed away from it a little bit.

I think the people of New York are happy. We came out here and handled our business and now we can go home and give those guys one playoff game. They're going to be rowdy.

I think it will be a challenge for us because people are going to start gunning for us now. We've just got to be ready each week to make everybody believe in us.

When I was in Pittsbugh, I was basically worried about how many times the ball would be thrown my way,

I've pretty much kept my nose clean since then, just tried to be a reliable person and show my teammates they can count on me. I respect Coughlin as a coach and I'll wager he respects me as a player.

We needed things like that to build our confidence. Make a few plays like that, we'll do something in the playoffs.

Some games are just like that. Not every game are you going to come out and sling the ball around. We shot ourselves in the foot a few times.

We can't blame anyone but ourselves. We didn't play as well as we wanted to. We know we were sputtering offensively and defensively. It's kind of a slap in the face and now we're in the position we're in.

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.

It was just a great throw by Eli. I'm here to make a few big plays for the team.

I didn't make the play.

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).

I don't think he should have gone that far. I figured I'd get fined, but I didn't think I'd miss the whole first quarter.

I want to go out and show my ability and what I can do.

Some days you get the pretty lady. Some days you get the beast.

I felt my opportunities were kind of limited, so to speak, and at times I kind of felt (like I was) playing in shackles,

All the things that are going on in their lives, we all wish that never happened to them, but at the same time we got to go out and approach it like a regular football game.

Last year taught me to just take my job more seriously, ... I have to remember that I'm doing what I love to do and I've got the best job in the world. I've got to treat it that way.

For us, we've still got to play the New Orleans football team. There are a lot of things going on in their lives. We all wish it never would have happened to them, but at the same time, we've got to approach it like a regular football game.

I was just trying to get a hand on it. I tried to tip it back to myself, but I couldn't. The ball was more on the inside of Thornton, and I was more on the outside. I just stuck my hand over his arm and tried to get a hand on it.

I don't think people really believe that we can get the job done. There's still a lot of people thinking that we can't make the playoffs. We're a 3-1 football team and they still think we're the worst team in this division. That kind of motivates us a little bit to go out and show everybody what we're really capable of doing.

It seemed everything we did, they had an answer. It's kind of embarrassing to play like that.

It takes time to get your timing on your routes and things like that, ... It's getting a little easier, but you don't want to get anyone hurt.

I can't do anything but go forward. I learned from every aspect last year, from being hurt and losing my position, to hearing it from the fans and the media and getting criticized. I survived it.

He's definitely not afraid to stick it in there. He's going to throw the ball in traffic. He has a lot of confidence in his arm. But if I was that big, I'd have that much confidence too. We're all anxious to see how it's going to work out. The world's definitely going to get to see what he's got.

Steve McNair is the most underrated player in the league, bar none, ... Nobody really knows how good this guy is till you go out and play against him on the field. Watch him just try to do things out there, freelancing, having fun, making plays. He's a great quarterback.

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.'

We work hard on our routes in practice. We come out early before games and go through our entire route tree.

Now, I have the opportunity to catch more balls and I relish the opportunity, ... It's something I've always wanted. I think I needed a change. It was like 'Groundhog Day,' doing the same thing over and over again. What better place could I be than to come to New York and try to put everybody to the side and say, 'This is who I am.'

We established that in practice during the week. He'll look for me to make plays and I'll do my best for him.

Arizona at NY Giants 315 p.m. Sunday, Giants by 3 Plaxico Burress left Pittsburgh in free agency because all the Steelers did was run. Now, the veteran receiver is looking to make a connection with second-year quarterback Eli Manning. Hopefully, ... that Manning-to-Burress thing can be a big thing around here.

He's been talking a little for the last couple of days. We've been laughing, having some fun. He even got on me the other day for having my stuff in front of his locker. But he's a quiet guy. He really doesn't say much. I pretty much had to initiate the conversation and then all a sudden the guy just starts blabbing. Hey, you'd never know that guy could talk so much.

For them to beat Carolina in Carolina says a lot about their team and their character. Now they've got the Monday night stage. We've just got to come out and match their intensity because if we don't, those guys are going to play all four quarters.

I was surprised to see that. I didn't expect him to follow me to both sides of the field. I said, 'Oh man, I've got my work cut out for me today.' He's one of the best there is. We had a good battle. I won some, and he won some.