Tee Grizzley Quotes

I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so those are the values I live by.

I think my style of play, not drinking, I think I'm a product of clean living. I don't drink, don't smoke.

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

I never had a drink in my life. I don't smoke or anything.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

I don't drink, I don't smoke.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.