No one knows how I felt when I turned Adrian Peterson child around after spanking him and seeing what I had left on his leg, No one knows that Dad sat there and apologized to him, hugged him and told him that I didn't mean to do this to you and how sorry I was.

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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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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.

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

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I remember my mistakes more than my success.

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If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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 want to be the best player to ever play this game.

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

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