“It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.” HappensNightSexCareersPlayerViolenceModernMinutesFootballDrinkDrugRoundsAverageClubsComplainingDisasterDrunkSoccerCombinationAnalysisExcessRecipesIncidentsInvolvingFootballerDisposableColumnistsExpectancyFootball ClubsNight ClubSex Drugs Author:Matthew Engel
“I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.” IfsWritingMatterWould BeAbleSongCareersOne ThingDrugToolsAddictionAlcoholIf I CouldSoberDrugs And AlcoholAlcohol Addiction Author:Macklemore
“I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.” PeopleKindMadeSometimesFictionCareersViolenceTruth IsDrugKillingStrangerNewspapersAll KindsKillersExaggerationDealerDrug DealersStranger Than Fiction Author:Benicio Del Toro
“I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.” LifeHas BeensCoursesCareersTakenDrugNegativeTestsPerformancesPerformance Enhancing Drugs Author:Mohamed Farah