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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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Adrian Peterson
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: March 21
American Football Player
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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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I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me.
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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 remember my mistakes more than my success.
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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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The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part.
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Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much.
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It's modern-day slavery.
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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 love my son more than any of you can imagine.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.
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I've been running like this since I was seven.
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