Hines Ward
Hines Ward
Hines Edward Ward, Jr.is a retired American football wide receiver, businessman, and television personality. He is the current NBC studio analyst who played 14 seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Georgia. The Pittsburgh Steelers selected him in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and he became the team's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yardage and touchdown receptions. Ward was voted MVP of Super Bowl XL, and...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth8 March 1976
CitySeoul, South Korea
It felt good. It's still only my third day of practicing and getting a chance to get out here and participate in a live game. It's good to be back.
Just hit it down their throats. They've got great team speed. When we were down 10-7 against them before, we still had a chance in that ballgame to go out and make plays. We just didn't do that.
When I first got here, it was like, 'Man, I'm playing with Jerome, The Bus. Just getting the chance to hang out with him, kind of molding me into the person I am, how to deal with everything, how to deal with the notoriety, he brings out the best in everybody.
We gave ourselves a chance to win the ballgame,
We were down 10-7 for the longest time. We had chances to make some plays, but we just didn't do it. Their defense had a lot to do with that. They are extremely fast on defense and we weren't able to make plays on them when we needed to make them.
We liked our chances against No. 22. He's a great, talented kid, just young and inexperienced, so we wanted to see if we could exploit that.
We liked our chances against No. 22. He's a great, talented kid. He's just young and inexperienced and we wanted to exploit that. He's going to be good, but (Sunday), we wanted to do what we needed to do (against him).
We're still a great team. It's one loss. We didn't play particularly well but still had a chance to win the game against the Super Bowl champions. We've got to learn from it and get better, and get a lot of guys healthy and come back and make this 13-game run.
We play them twice a year and we know them. We'll take our chances going to Cincinnati. ... It's not going to be easy, but we're more comfortable with them.
We practice that. He gave me a chance to make a play.
The whole holdout was strictly business, and for me it was about getting the opportunity to retire as a Steeler, ... It was not about money or greed, it was about me wanting to retire as a Steeler and to have that chance to retire as a Steeler. Thats all I can really ask for.
It helps a lot that we get a chance to go out there and redeem ourselves. We get another chance to face the No. 1 team in the AFC. That's about all you can ask for.
I had a chance to meet the doctor who saved my mother's life at the time of giving birth to me. This is where it all started.
We have to count our blessings. The man above, he really looked down on Jerome and said, 'I'm not going to let you end your career on a fumble like that.' ... We're one game away from getting him to Detroit.