I shouldn’t have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, ‘You’re too young to be married’. ‘What? I’m 35’. Said, ‘You’re far too young. You haven’t lived yet’. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.
My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
I can definitely say the older I’ve got the better I’ve become at being a dad and a husband.
My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.