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I remember my mistakes more than my success.

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Adrian Peterson
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: March 21
American Football Player
Runner
Palestine
Texas
Adrian Lewis Peterson
Mistakes
Mistake
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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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Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.
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I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
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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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I'm looking forward to getting back on the field, it's what I love to do.
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I try to be open with everybody, try to make everybody feel welcome and make them feel like, hey, I'm an easy person to talk to, get along with.
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I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me.
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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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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'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.
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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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Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.
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I understand that my son loves me and I love him, and everything just really got blown out of proportion, and I'm OK with that. I'm still here. My son is around me all the time. At the end of the day he still loves me and I love him, so it is what it is.
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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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You look at Ray Lewis, you look at Brett Favre. I know it's different positions, but you think about the mental mindset it takes to continue to grind and play at a high level. Those are the guys that I look at that motivate me.
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It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well. It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is.
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People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.
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The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part.
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To me, when you got a 20-year-old running back or 21-year-old receiver that's just coming out of college and you're out working these guys, age really don't matter. So it's easy for me to see what it is. People say it's all about age, but to me, it's mind over matter.
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I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.
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