So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.
I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.
I did pretty well busking. I would play two to eight hours a day, and I could make two or three hundred an hour.
Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.
I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.
I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.
I spent a couple of months just riding a bike doing my own training in the streets.