Pedro Martinez Quotes

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

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.

I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.

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 stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

Being sober is not a struggle for me.

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

Sobriety has been the most life-affirming path for me.

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

When I got sober, that was 1990.

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.'

What's the point of staying sober?

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

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.

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?

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

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.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.

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

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.