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
The ball is getting spread around, and everybody's happy. We're still trying to find our identity. We're still a running team, but, when it's time to make plays in the passing game, we've got confidence all three of our guys can go out there and get the job done.
I want to see where she grew up. I want to see where I was born. I want to see where she played hooky and hung out ... I want to learn more about my heritage. I want to learn everything.
It's great to be back - I missed it. It was just day three for me, and we're getting better. Ben is making good reads and we need to make some plays for him.
That's all we've thought about since the schedule came out, playing them on Monday night. That's why I'm here at camp now, that Monday night game. Losing that game hurt. But now we just want to get back there. Starting off with us and them on Monday night? That's classic. That's art.
We felt we were in control. But they played 60 minutes and we didn't. So now we've got to regroup and let's try to win 13 straight.
We felt we were in control. But they played 60 minutes, and we didn't.
To sit there and do that, and for us to say there's still improvement that we need to make, that's the exciting part of it. Coming on the road, playing here in Houston with the heat, we went out there and did a tremendous job to do what we had to do to win the game.
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've put ourselves behind the 8-ball as far as the playoffs go. I think we've got to win all four of our games left.
This is one of those games you circle on your calendar. You're not going to put all of your chips in one game. But when anyone plays the Patriots, you're going to play your best. You're going to have to play your best.
A thousand yards? If that's how you judge me as a football player, then you need to continue judging me. Me not hitting 1,000 yards doesn't mean I'm any less of a receiver. This year, it was all about me ... playing consistent.
Teams seem to put us in black jerseys whenever we go anywhere that's hot. We're accustomed to playing in that.
You really don't realize you're playing with a Hall of Fame running back until it comes to an end. If this will be his last year, what better way than to finish where it all started?
Carolina played a lot of Cover 2. When teams play Cover 2, you have to be able to run the ball. We didn't do that. And, we have to stay away from negative (yardage) plays.