Michael Strahan
Michael Strahan
Michael Anthony Strahanis a retired American football defensive end who spent his entire 15-year career with the New York Giants of the National Football League. Strahan set a record for the most sacks in a season in 2001, and won a Super Bowl in his final season in 2007. After retiring from the NFL, Strahan became a media personality. He is currently a football analyst on Fox NFL Sunday, and has also served as co-host on the syndicated morning talk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth21 November 1971
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
It is something like basically getting stabbed in the heart. These are the type of games you look back on at the end of the season and just hope they don't hurt you.
Compared to the other teams, it definitely seems like a younger team to me. But I think that everybody here has the same motivation, the same desire to go out there and win these games and put us in the Super Bowl. That is everybody's goal. There is no doubt in anybody's mind that we can do that as long as we play the way we are capable of playing.
As the game gets bigger, it get bigger for the players.
Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.
I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.
The first two preseason games I was still like, 'OK if I stick my arm out there like I did when I messed it up, will it happen again?' ... Then against the Jets I did it to Curtis Martin. And you know what? Nothing happened. I think the more you play and the more you use it like I usually would, the less I think about it. Right now I really don't think about it at all.
We've just got to make plays. Keep the ball out of their hands, make the tackles, all the other stuff. We didn't do it.
There have been three guys I've been around who, personality-wise, have been the most inspirational,
When I saw Toomer catch it and there were no flags, it was the most excited I've been around here in a long time.
We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
When I saw the date of the game, it was a little like, 'Whoa,' ... It kind of took you back. We'll go out here and hopefully give everybody in the city of New York and across the country something to be happy about and turn it into a celebration.
This time of year, you really have to be able to stop the run. So it's going to be key for us to get back to where we were.
This team is one of those teams that you are going to have to stay until the end of the game to see exactly what happens.
To be honest, that's the last body part I'm concerned about because it doesn't bother me in the least. There's no residual effect at all. Look, I'm here to play and if I go out there and something else gets hurt, that's part of football.