Adrian Peterson famous quotes

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,
-- Adrian Peterson

#Brother #Team #Player

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Trying #Hey #Welcome

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Hard Work #Practice #Games

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Pain #Struggle #Heart

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#People #Judging #Trials

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Sacrifice #Winning #Rushing

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Mean #Lobster #Shrimp

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Football #Opportunity #Different

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Mom #Brother #Jesus

I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Trying #Stuff #Potatoes

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Ice Cream #Work Out #Lucky

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Country #Order #Needs

I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Player #Games #Nfl

When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Nfl #Mind #Fields

I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Running #Team #Winning

I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Dream #Winning #Nfl

I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Nfl #Starting #Expressive

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Team #Nfl #Guy

It feels good to give back to the people who support you.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Nfl #People #Giving

People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Nfl #People #Injury

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Games #Nfl #People

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

#Football #Dad #Mean

I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Team #Cowboy #Nfl

I've been running like this since I was seven.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Running #Nfl #Seven

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Running #Nfl #Speed

Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of No Way.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Adversity #Able #Way

I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Balls

I remember my mistakes more than my success.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Mistake #Remember #My Mistakes

I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Football #Running #Pain

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Pain #Two #Want

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Hurt #Play #Relentless

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Guy #Needs #Roles

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Children #People #Alternatives

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.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Men #Parent #Way