Leigh Steinberg Quotes

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

I was a functional addict.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it's a universal disease.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

Alcoholics are amazed when I admit to them my addiction to work. Here I have a ground of real and not imagined empathy with them. Against the background of this, I have dubbed this addiction of myself and my fellow ministers as “workaholism.”

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.