Adrian Peterson Quotes

Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

I don't care if I win or lose; I know I'm going to give 110%, and I'm going to hold my head high at the end of the day.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

Those who stay will be champions

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.

I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

If you ain't first, you're last!

I want to win a championship. I can't come on this team and demand to be a starter.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super Bowl champions.... I immediately thought of all the great players on the team. I was in awe, as I had watched these soon-to-be legends play on television. They epitomized for me what football was all about: the love of the game, the professional approach, and the desire to win.

If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.

There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) . . . . We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills".

My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking at the cost of self-respect, or independence. My family were not historic; they were well-to-do, did not hold or seek office. It was easy for me to be contented in private life. An honor was no honor to me, if obtained by my own seeking.