My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that.
My father was a very difficult man.
My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
My father wasn't around much. He made mistakes, but he had a very tough road.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
I was indeed very slow as a youngster.