Steve Serby this week talked to the newest Jet, Ty Law, a four-time Pro Bowl selection and three-time world champion with the Patriots.

Q: Your message to Jets fans who’ve waited 37 years for a Super Bowl championship?

A: You ain’t gonna have to wait much longer. I’m trying to bring a championship attitude to New York and bring one home. Be patient, but not too patient.

Q: This could be the year?

A: I think it can. They’ve been knocking on the door so many times. Hopefully I can be the missing piece of the puzzle.

Q: How much will the Patriots miss [coordinators] Charlie Weis and Romeo Crennel?

A: I think they’re gonna miss them big-time. I think they’re gonna miss them for their locker-room presence. They weren’t just coaches; they were part of the locker room. I think they’re gonna miss them in both aspects.

Q: Define swagger.

A: Swagger is something you can’t teach. I would say it’s an aura. It’s not something you can draw or sketch. A lot of guys try to plan it, to try to draw attention to themselves. If you got swagger, you ain’t gotta do nothing to draw attention to you. I got a natural swagger. I feel like I’m good. I’m not faking it ’cause I believe it.

Q: One Parcells story?

A: He told me I was gonna be the first first-rounder in NFL history to get cut.

Q: What did you tell him?

A: Go ahead and cut me ’cause you already gave me my signing bonus!

Q: Biggest lesson you learned from him?

A: He nags you and nags you, but if you play for him, he can be one of the nicest guys in the world. He just expects a lot out of you. When I played against Michael Irvin, he stood behind me all week ragging me about what Michael Irvin was gonna do to me.

Q: And Bill Belichick?

A: Belichick makes the other guys seem so great it [ticks] you off. Parcells shows lowlights of you in the meeting room and how you didn’t do this right. Belichick shows you highlights of the other guy; he won’t show you at all.

Q: Whom did you prefer playing for?

A: Belichick always had you prepared. If I didn’t want to study as hard, I know Belichick is gonna give me everything I need. I’m gonna know every route. He does it all for you. Parcells mentally prepares you big-time; you get on the field, you’re ready to beat up guys bad just to prove him wrong.

Q: Your pal, Curtis Martin?

A: He has a lot of integrity. He’s gonna stay true to himself, to his organization and true to his friends.

Q: The one quarterback you don’t want to face in a big game?

A: I want the biggest-name quarterback out there. No such thing. If I got the receiver covered, who gives a damn who’s throwing it? But Dan Marino used to [tick] me off. I used to be draped on the guy and he would throw it to where only his receiver could catch it.

Q: Favorite Super Bowl memory?

A: When I picked it off and took it to the house [against the Rams in Super Bowl XXVI].

Q: Favorite Aliquippa (Pa.) High memory?

A: When we won the state championship, I took my SATs that morning. Right after the SATs we had to get a police escort to make it to the game. I’m running in there trying to get dressed; I was tucking in my shirt during the coin toss.

Q: How did you do on your SATs?

A: I passed the SATs and took the opening kickoff back for a touchdown (laugh).

Q: Favorite athlete outside football?

A: Muhammad Ali.

Q: You watch Ali training tapes at home to get your swagger up for games?

A: He exuded confidence no matter what people said. I just like to hear his little rhymes: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. I like the whole aura of Muhammad Ali. I’m not much of a talker like he is on the field, it’s just the attitude he carries. I’m definitely feeling that inside.

Q: Biggest trash-talking wide receiver?

A: Joe Horn and Chad Johnson. Those guys are funny. Keyshawn [Johnson] in New York was a pretty good trash-talker but he was a talk-before-the-game type guy. He was pretty quiet during the game. I’m not a talker; I do my talking on the field. If you initiated it, OK, I’ll give you something back. If I get a chance, I might choke you. You gotta sneak it. Let’s say if a wide receiver tries to cut you. You gotta get him back somehow.

Q: Toughest receiver to cover for you?

A: I can’t say the toughest. I can give you the type of receiver: Marvin Harrison, Torry Holt, those guys can run and they’re quick. I like playing against the big receivers. They try to muscle you; that’s right up my alley.

Q: You own three mink coats?

A: I’m not a big mink guy, but it does get cold in New York and Boston.

Q: Will you unseat Curtis as Best Dressed Jet?

A: That guy’s hard to top. He’s got style. It was hands-down in New England (laugh). I’m gonna be looking for more of the comfort especially with this foot of mine. Curtis is gonna get that one again. I ain’t gonna be too far behind if that’s the case.

Q: The Red Sox reversing the curse?

A: I didn’t know baseball fans got down like that, to be honest with you.

Q: If you weren’t a football player, what would you have been?

A: Some type of entrepreneur. I wasn’t gonna be taking a lot of orders (laugh).

Q: One person in history you would like to meet?

A: Martin Luther King.

Q: Three dinner guests?

A: Jesus; my grandfather Ray; and grandmother Ida.

Q: Regrets?

A: Certain things I said I wanted to do before my grandfather passed away (at 77 from a kidney ailment) I didn’t get a chance to do. I wasn’t expecting him to go so fast. I was raised by my grandparents.

Q: Three wishes?

A: My kids grow up and be better people than I am; be a better human being myself; help the New York Jets win a championship.

Q: If I was NFL commissioner, I would …?

A: Guarantee contracts (laugh).

Q: Favorite movie?

A: “Harlem Nights.”

Q: Favorite horror movie?

A: “Night of the Living Dead” – the ones they got now, some of them need to go to the [NFL] Combine. They run 4.3! And “Halloween” and “Friday the 13th.” I was a horror-movie junkie.

Q: Favorite actor?

A: Samuel L. Jackson.

Q: What actor would you pick to play you in “The Ty Law Story?”

A: Denzel [Washington]. Women like Denzel (laugh).

Q: What actor would you pick to play Parcells?

A: The dude off “[The] Sopranos” (James Gandolfini).

Q: Favorite actress?

A: Halle Berry.

Q: What will you want Jets fans to say about you when you’re retired?

A: That they enjoyed watching me and I played the game like it’s supposed to be played, hard, and I had fun. I might shake a leg for you every now and again, you know what I mean?