Christopher Hitchens 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 have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

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

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

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.

How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?

I've never missed weight once in my entire life or my career going from wrestling from eight years old through all my professional career. If I agree to do something, I'm doing it.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

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 terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work.

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.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

I'm not a perfect person who doesn't mess up, eat bad, not work out - I do all those things. It's just for the most part, when I'm working, I don't feel like I have the choice. I have to bring my A-game.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.