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My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.

Adrian Peterson

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Adrian Peterson
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: March 21
American Football Player
Runner
Palestine
Texas
Adrian Lewis Peterson
Nfl
Dad
Football
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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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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 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 take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me I'm using football.
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The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part.
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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 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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I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.
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I love my son. I love my kids, my family. Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea, I take full responsibility for my actions.
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I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
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I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
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I am starting to realize that a lot of guys look up to me, ... Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations. Im young, but that leadership role has been on me so I need to live up to it.
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I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.
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I've been running like this since I was seven.
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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 dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.
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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 modern-day slavery.
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People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.
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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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