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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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Adrian Peterson
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: March 21
American Football Player
Runner
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Texas
Adrian Lewis Peterson
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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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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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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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Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.
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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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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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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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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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I remember my mistakes more than my success.
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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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The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part.
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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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