John Denver Quotes

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

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.

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

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

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

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.

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

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wish to do so. I never, ever drink while on duty. The drinking is only for my pleasure. I do not remember neglecting my duties because of drinking even once.

My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, 'Were you an alcoholic?' I suppose the short answer is 'Yes.'

I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that whole thing of 'I'm always burdened with this' and the original sin idea. It's not like that for me.

My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it's not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.

I basically gave up drinking. Personally, I thought I was drinking too much and, over the long run, it caught up with me.

I'm not no 'drink wine every day' kind of dude.

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