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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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Adrian Peterson
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: March 21
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I've been running like this since I was seven.
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I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.
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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 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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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 know that people have their own opinions and they look at what the norm is for people. I look at age as just being a number. In my mind my age is still 28 and I think I have to remember how old I am.
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People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.
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I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
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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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I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.
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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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Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.
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I like to bless people and do things without the world knowing about it, because I'm not in it for the glory. I do it because it comes from my heart. As long as I keep doing that, I'm satisfied.
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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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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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Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.
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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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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 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'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
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