The Post’s Steve Serby chatted this past week with the Giants wide receiver:

Q: You and your brother Donald used to re-enact The Catch (Joe Montana to Dwight Clark) in your home?

A: My brother used to always throw the ball and I used to always catch it in the living room when my parents weren’t there.

Q: Do any damage?

A: I’m sure we did a lot of damage. My dad was a black belt in karate. He had these trophies from tournaments down in Southern California. We broke half his

trophies (laugh).

Q: And you’re a black belt.

A: Yeah. I’d always watch the kung fu movies and all this stuff. A lot of the moves in the movies are actually real moves.

Q: Your favorite catch?

A: Probably the Denver catch in ’98.

Q: Why?

A: Just because it kinda jumpstarted my career. Because up until then I was a bust; they were gonna trade me that year and then I ended up having a pretty

good season and then I ended up signing a big, long deal after that.

Q: Most embarrassing moment?

A: I was in high school and me and my buddies were playing catch in the parking lot at a 49er game. I threw the ball to my buddy, and it went over his head

and hit this lady in the head.

Q: The first time you met Jerry Rice?

A: My cousin (offensive tackle Steve Wallace) played on the Niners, and he let me in the locker room after one of the practices. I think I was a senior in

college.

Q: And what do you remember about meeting Rice that day?

A: He just seemed very reserved and very quiet, very respectable type person.

Q: Was he your idol growing up?

A: I definitely watched him; my idol was probably either my dad or my (older) brother, to be honest with you.

Q: Dan Reeves?

A: Old school.

Q: Jim Fassel?

A: He made the game fun.

Q: Tom Coughlin?

A: Discipline.

Q: You appeared in “Jerry Maguire”.

A: I was a senior in college, and they flew me out to L.A. I sat around the hotel all day ordering room service and stuff.

Q: What did you do in the movie?

A: I was an extra. There are extras who make $40 a day, and then there are special extras.

Q: So, what did you make?

A: I made like $1,200. In two days!

Q: What did you do in the movie?

A: I didn’t do anything; they kinda showed the back of my head. If you blinked, you’d miss my scene.

Q: How were you picked?

A: I guess my agent at the time (Leigh Steinberg) hooked me up.

Q: Best single Giant moment?

A: I didn’t make the Pro Bowl (in 2002), and Wellington Mara came up to me and said, “Amani, you made my Pro Bowl.”

Q: Worst Giant moment?

A: Last year.

Q: Why?

A: Because I felt like I was doing something for the greater good and ended up really hurting myself.

Q: You mean trying to play through the hamstring?

A: Yeah. I thought I was trying to tough it out for the team and then it ended up causing a lot of people after the season to tell me I’m over the hill. I

think this year would have been a lot different if I just had not played last year.

Q: You were diagnosed with asthma your rookie season; did it affect your play?

A: Yeah. We were playing Jacksonville in my second season. It was a hot, humid day. On one of the plays I ran, I just couldn’t catch my breath, so I ran

across the field to our sideline and kinda collapsed, and nobody went in for me. We ended up getting a penalty, and then after the game, Coach Fassel, he

didn’t know I had asthma, said, “Amani, if you want to play in this league, you’re gonna have to get in better shape!”

Q: Did you ever think you were dying?

A: Yeah, I thought I was dying a couple of times … not dying … I thought, “There’s no way I can get up and run in the next half hour, 45 minutes.”

Q: How did you fix that?

A: I did a lot of breathing exercises trying to strengthen my breathing tract, and kung fu helped me a lot in terms of breathing and calming myself down. I

used to take inhalers and I used to take this oral steroid. Now I can deal with it.

Q: What would people be surprised to learn about you?

A: That I have little remote-control cars that I play with (smiles).

Q: Best and worst thing about playing in New York?

A: The best thing about playing in New York is probably the media. The worst thing probably also is the media.

Q: You went to Sri Lanka and Indonesia with Kurt Warner to provide tsunami relief. What was the most moving memory for you?

A: I guess when we were landing for the first time in one of the worst-hit areas in Indonesia, and all the kids were coming out, and everybody was just so

excited to see us. Just to see what Mother Nature can really do, I mean it is amazing.

Q: Why did you pick Michigan?

A: I guess at the time it was a hot school – the Fab 5 just finished their first year, and they had just come off a big Rose Bowl win, Desmond Howard had

just won the Heisman, and they had told me they were gonna go into a new passing direction, which didn’t end up materializing (smiles).

Q: Three dinner guests?

A: Gandhi; Nelson Mandela; Martin Luther King.

Q: If I was president I would …?

A: Really stress using alternate forms of fuel to try to alleviate the dependency on Middle Eastern oil.

Q: Best piece of advice your father gave you?

A: Keep your wits about you when all around you have lost them.

Q: Favorite singer?

A: Bob Marley.

Q: Favorite meal?

A: Indian food.

Q: Favorite movie?

A: “Glory.”