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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
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Texas
Adrian Lewis Peterson
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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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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 run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.
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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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I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.
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I've been running like this since I was seven.
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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'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.
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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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It feels good to give back to the people who support you.
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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 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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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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If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?
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I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.
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People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.
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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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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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Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.
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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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