Adrian Peterson Quotes

You come from the college, you're the man. I was second-team All-American. I got drafted by Toronto, but they just took me because I was the best man on the board. They didn't need me. I didn't get a whole lot of help or guidance. I wasn't playing. I couldn't get reps in practice. And it's big-boy basketball. Grown men.

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I played in Germany which is quite a physical league.

People outside the organization or outside of football, they don't know how hard it is to win in this league, such a high-caliber athletes and elite group of people competing each week.

As a child I dreamed of playing for Arsenal, because I loved them. Now I hate them for the way Wenger treated me.

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.

I don't think they should be against the NFL because the NFL, those are two big games. I don't think it would be good for the NFL and I don't think it would be good for the debates.

Nothing is given in the Premier League, and it is tough for spots.

Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.

He's a specialist in failure.

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

[NFL fans] wish they'd shut up and play football, and I think the vast majority of people, "Shut up and act! Shut up and sing! Shut up and star in your TV show! Just shut up and do what you do, but shut up!" I think they're wearing out their welcome.

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

In this league, experience means a lot.

I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.

My advice for Sebastian Kehl is: if you have a 35-point deficit in the league, it is better to shut up.

Other sports culminate at different times of the year, but the NFL is in the fourth quarter - that's where the money is.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.