Malachy McCourt Quotes

I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!

Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

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

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

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.

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.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

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'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

I have not had a drink for four years, which for me is a long time.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have come into my life since this happened.

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.

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.

I don't drink. I don't do any drugs.