‘”Once I got clean,” he continued, “I remember thinking, `I got sober for this?’ But somebody told me: `Take one problem at a time. You can’t handle all your problems at once. Take one, knock it down. Another one, knock it down.’ That’s what I did. I never thought I’d get rid of ’em all. But one case got settled, then another got settled, then another, and it was over. I didn’t have to worry about nobody stopping me.”‘