Don Young Quotes

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.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

The fact that my environment influences my life so much - and that my environment is in my control - gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.

My commitment to living clean is now unwavering.

You can control what you put in your body, how you take care of yourself, how much you work. You have to control what you can.

I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I say 'What's the point?' I'll go to a club and have a Red Bull, get my buzz. And the next day I feel cool. It's discipline, not just with drinking but a lot of things in life. You've just got to look at the bigger picture.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

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.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

I only have control over what I do.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

I don't want to be viewed as a womaniser or whatever. I don't like going crazy crazy, I like having fun but it's nice to wake up in your own bed, isn't it?

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

Self Control, Not State Control

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober

If I couldn't have discipline, if I sit up eatin' fried chicken in bed at night, I'd just as soon be dead. I take care of myself.

I could never afford to be in a position where I could do something stupid, so I gave up drinking.

You control what you can control.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.