“As you get towards the end of your career, you just try and cherish every moment and reach that title game again.” – Chris Snee, now in his 10th season, all with the Giants.

EAST RUTHERFORD: How does a NFL player who has been voted a first team All Pro at his position, selected to multiple Pro Bowls, won two Super Bowl Championships and may have already punched his ticket to the Hall of Fame do to keep motivated?

For New York Giants guard Chris Snee, the answer is simple…love.

“I love this game, I love everything about it,” Snee told Footballstories recently. “I love all the work that goes into it. I love the weight room time, hanging out with the guys, I love coming out here…the fun part is to watch how different teams come together. Especially when you get into the season, when you are clicking. You can sense that everyone is playing for one another. It’s a good feeling. Also, I’ve won two (Super Bowls), I want to win another. As you get towards the end of your career, you just try and cherish every moment and reach that title game again.”

At 31, Snee believes he still has plenty of gas in the tank left but realizes with 10 seasons under his belt, there are a finite number of campaigns he can play at an elite level. It is a cruel fact of life in athletics: Sports eventually eliminates everyone.

“You can’t get caught up in it,” said Snee, has missed only six games in his career. “You just have to go out and continue to work hard and do things that you’ve done well to achieve where you’re at but also constantly strive to improve. That’s what we’re doing right now. I am making notes everyday on things I need to improve from last year. That’s the way I’ve done it since day one.

“I know everyone’s time comes,” Snee continued. “Some are fortunate to go out on their own terms hopefully one day that will my case as opposed to being forced out.”

Snee is a key part of a corps group that has managed to make two runs to win Super Bowls after forgettable regular seasons where Big Blue was barely able to squeak into the playoffs. How did they do it?

“It definitely starts with leadership,” Snee said. “I will say this…That’s not the way we want to get into the playoffs. We don’t want to rely on 9-7 or 10-6 because we’ve seen those records don’t get you in some years.

“But it does come from leadership,” He continued. “That fact that we are a team that thrives not wavering with adversity, constantly battling, fighting and clawing…that’s a characteristic of coach Coughlin’s teams. That’s what we do; we’ll fight until the end. Also we have a good lockeroom, we enjoy playing for one another and when you have everyone buying into that concept it’s a kind of invincible feeling when you take to the field. You know you are all on the same page. That’s the way we felt when we went on those two runs. And guys who have been here know what that feels like so if we’re ever to have that happen again, we’ll recognize it.”

Snee was asked to look at this year’s NFC East.

“Each team you look at the leadership,” said Snee, who is still every bit of the 6-foot-3, 305 pounds he is listed at. “All four teams have very good quarterbacks and explosive offenses. Now you have the unknown factor of the Dallas defense which is making a little bit of a change. The Philadelphia defense which is making a change, and the Redskins defense that has given us problems at times. It’s the toughest division in football. “

Snee was also asked how much he thinks of the sports science that has become such a big part of pro football…diets, sleeping habits, practice concepts to mimic games. Does he believe in any of it?

“Not really,” Snee quipped as he turned around to show off the GPS he and Giants players are required to wear to measure what the sports science coaches want in regards to body readings to help craft training disciplines that better translate to the football field.

The Eagles, Big Blue’s arch enemy 90 miles south of East Rutherford, have embraced sport science as a new bible and plan to use that technology against opponents such as the Jints. Snee is not much of a believer.

“I’ll worry about the Philadelphia defense when that time comes,” Snee said. “It’s still a game of football. I know it’s getting more scientific because I’ve gotten older and I’ve been around longer. An offense still comes down to moving one guy off the ball; it’s still a physical game…its still football.”

And it is still the sport Snee would rather love than dissect.