NEW YORK GIANTS MEDIA DAY - CENTER DAVID BAAS - Ingles

Super Bowl XLVI – Saturday, January 28, 2012

(on what the feeling is like for him to have a chance to play in the Super Bowl) “It’s amazing. I feel like this is once in a lifetime opportunity. You don’t want to let it go to waste. You’re here for one reason, to win and you don’t want that taste in your mouth afterwards and wondering “why this? or, why that?” You do everything you can this week to prepare yourself to go out there and show the world what you’ve got.”

(on what the key offensively will be for the Giants on Sunday) “I feel like the key is execution. We know they have a very good defense but we know they have a very high powered offense. I feel like it’s going to come down to who executes the best on offense is going to win the game.”

(on having a lot of Michigan and Michigan State guys on both teams) “It’s way better here because we’ve got all the guys here and when I was out in San Francisco there was like five or six Ohio State guys and me. I had to hear about it all the time. I can rub it in a little bit more here.”

(on the best thing is about being an offensive lineman) “You gain your respect through your players. Nobody really gives you credit for the things you go through, how bad you beat yourself up, just little things like that. When you can look each other and know that you’ve done a good job and hey we’re here at the Super Bowl, that’s gratifying. Then you need to look at each other and say we need to win this. As a lineman you don’t get the glory. You don’t get all the praise. It’s more from just knowing that from your teammates that you did something special, you deserve every bit of it.”

(on the worst part about being an offensive lineman is) “Probably just the feeling in your knees and watching the kickers standing over there on the sideline as you’re doing drills. It’s a tough job. You’re down there in the trenches and constantly beating yourself up. It’s a very tough job and you just never know when it’s going to end so just try and enjoy it as long as you can.

(on if he has always been an offensive lineman) “I was a tight end for my very first year in high school. Then I went from tackle to guard to center. Then I went everywhere for a while.”