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I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

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.'

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

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

I'm clean and sober.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.