Aufzeichnung / Recording Ding / Thing Gestartet / Started Halbes Jahr / Half Years Hälfte / Half Hätten / Had Jahre / Years Jeden / Every Lustiges / Funny Sagte / Said Sie / She Süss / Sweet Tat / Did Telefon / Phone Tochter / Daughter Vor Jahren / Years Ago Zwei / Two
Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.
What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
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.
My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
Coaches were all saying that I was really talented and I had potential, but coming from Serbia, it wasn't easy. The '90s were the hardest years for our country - we went through two wars.
I tape every game I can get my hands on. Every game that's on TV, I tape it. My daughter, Terry Hill, lives in Eureka, and she has a satellite dish, so she tapes what I can't get. I try to keep up with what everybody is doing, so if the phone rings, I'll be ready.
