He went from watching his home-town team Swansea on the terraces in the 1930s to playing for the Swans, Spurs and Wales, helped Swansea to promotion, played in the World Cup, scored one of Wales' most famous goals and was part of our glory, glory years of the early 1960s under Bill Nicholson.
But then his world fell apart as a broken leg ended his career at the age of 30 in 1963.
Born in 1932, Terry told us how he used to sneak into the Vetch Field, Swansea's former home before the Liberty Stadium, as he recalled those days growing up in Swansea.