Adrian Peterson Quotes

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

My parents were fantastic. I was an only child, so I had a lot of love and too much attention. I don't think I was spoilt. My mother was quite a disciplinarian, but I did have a lot of attention and quite a lot of pressure to do well at whatever I was doing.

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am today.

Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.

My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.