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

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Adrian Peterson
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: March 21
American Football Player
Runner
Palestine
Texas
Adrian Lewis Peterson
Nfl
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Football
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I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.
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If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?
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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'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.
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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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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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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 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 take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me I'm using football.
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I go out and put in a load during the offseason so I know what I'm going to be able to do, as long as I stay healthy, when it comes time for the season.
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I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.
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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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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 want to be the best player to ever play this game.
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I remember my mistakes more than my success.
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We are human, so we do go through pain and we struggle with things, but it's all about how you respond to a situation. My whole life, I've been responding in a positive way and keeping a positive mind, keeping God first in my heart, in my mind. No matter what wrong I've done, I know who sees the heart.
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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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The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part.
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I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.
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