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I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.

Adrian Peterson

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Adrian Peterson
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: March 21
American Football Player
Runner
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Texas
Adrian Lewis Peterson
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I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.
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The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part.
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When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.
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I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps.
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I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.
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I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.
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Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.
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I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.
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When I'm out, maybe I'm looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I'm still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.
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I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.
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I don't know any other job that the off-the-field issues - especially something personal like that - affects your job. But as far as the parenting lesson, no [I understood that]. To me it was so simple, it was a situation where I disciplined my child and it didn't turn out the way I wanted.
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The type of work I do is more like CrossFit, so I do track workouts, and I do boxing workouts. So it's a lot of different things that I do. I don't want to overload the body too much, but when we do the hill, it's not like workouts.
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I love my son more than any of you can imagine.
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At the end of the day, it's hard to win against the NFL. It's a billion-dollar business, it's hard to win against it. They can manipulate a lot of different things. They can pull strings, they know people. At the end of the day, nine times out of 10, they are going to win.
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People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.
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If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?
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With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.
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It feels good to give back to the people who support you.
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I have the mentality that if you come in playing not to get hurt, that's when you're going to get hurt. So I play relentless.
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I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.
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