Sonny Bill Williams Quotes

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.

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

But she told me she was never going to drink again.

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

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

It's funny, because when you tell people you've stopped drinking, there's an automatic reaction. People ask, 'Was it a lifestyle choice or were you waking up in a skip?'

I don't drink anymore.

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

I do not understand rehab. If it works for people, then God bless them.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

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 got sober at age forty-two.

I don't drink no more.

I quit drinking because I thought somewhere I had fallen in that trap of addiction, and the only way to get out of it was to acknowledge it to myself.

I was probably born an alcoholic.

There have definitely been phases of the National, many years ago, where we did party, and various people, in their own way, fell off the wagon.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

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.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.