Bob Hawke Quotes

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.

My commitment to living clean is now unwavering.

I'm drug-free. I don't drink.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

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

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.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

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

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

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

I feel good that I have my life in order. I'm not addicted to anything that I'm aware of.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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