Whitey Ford Quotes

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

I've found for playing that it's generally not a good thing to be drinking.

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

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

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

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

That is one advantage of our time; in the highest office of the Reich we have the example of a simple and modest alcohol-and nicotine-free way of life

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

I need you to read more and drink less.

It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.

Being sober is not a struggle for me.

During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.

I'm more disciplined now. The days of late-night parties are over.

Arjun's character has brought discipline in my life. Now everything happens in my life well planned. Initially, I used to get up at any time, but now I get up at appropriate time, and I keep a check on my diet.