Drinking alone, page-19

• I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
  • Reported in "Best: Decline of the golden boy", BBC News (June 14 2005).

• I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
  • C. 1974; reported in Patrick West, Beating Them at Their Own Game: How the Irish Conquered English Soccer (2006), p. 188.

• In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
  • Reported in Ned Sherrin, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2008), p. 153.