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.
ADRIAN PETERSONThe 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.
ADRIAN PETERSONTo 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.
ADRIAN PETERSONTo be able to have that self-respect for yourself and just that feeling of, OK.
ADRIAN PETERSONThat’s how you turn a team around.
ADRIAN PETERSONI definitely run up right, and I’ve got pretty good speed.
ADRIAN PETERSONI 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 PETERSONI know that people have their own opinions and they look at what the norm is for people.
ADRIAN PETERSONI 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 PETERSONThat willpower has to kick in.
ADRIAN PETERSONPeople say I’m injury-prone but that’s definitely not true.
ADRIAN PETERSONIf you don’t think that you’re the best, how do you become the best?
ADRIAN PETERSONI can catch the ball. You’ve got to throw it to me.
ADRIAN PETERSONIt’s not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well.
ADRIAN PETERSONI 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 PETERSONIt was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is.
ADRIAN PETERSONI run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.
ADRIAN PETERSON