Chris Eubank visits St Philips Catholic Prm Sch in Smetwick, to help launch a scheme and give an inspirational talk to students.
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00:00I want my people to be good, but I want them to feel it now.
00:03Feeling is, think of shivers going down your back.
00:06Oh, I feel that.
00:07Mm, yeah, they're going to be good.
00:09My parents are going to be good.
00:11Mm, I feel that.
00:12Oh.
00:13This is how we bring things to you.
00:16I know it's a little odd, but it works.
00:20This is how I was able to make my little life shine big.
00:27OK, I'm going to go from you to the adults here.
00:37This is something I think I told one of the classes earlier on.
00:40And I want to tell the adults.
00:42It's called Gal in the Glass.
00:44Gal in the Glass is a poem which empowers young girls to grow up
00:51to be powerful women.
00:55And the woman is something that we really need to protect.
01:03We need to be chivalrous.
01:05We need to look after the female species.
01:09So it goes as follows.
01:13When you get what you want, you're
01:15going to struggle for self.
01:17And the world will give you a queen for the name.
01:20Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
01:23and see what that girl has to say.
01:26For it isn't your husband or family or friend
01:29who judgement upon you thus far.
01:32So the girl whose verdict comes most in the end
01:35is the one staring back from the glass.
01:38Some people may say, you, you're a strange little child.
01:42They may call you a person of place.
01:45But the girl in the glass says, you're only a bum
01:49if you can't look a certain place.
01:52For she's the girl to please, but her mind will digress.
01:55For she's with you clear up to the end.
01:58And you pass your most dangerous difficult test.
02:01But the girl in the glass is your friend.
02:04Now, you may fool the whole world,
02:06but only none of it, because this is energy.
02:09So this is part of why they called me eccentric.
02:12I didn't treat boxing as a sport like it's some game.
02:15I treated it as a role.
02:18I was evaluated.
02:21It was do or die.
02:24I didn't understand the guys
02:27that came towards the ring.
02:30I didn't understand the guys
02:33that came towards the ring.
02:36I didn't understand the guys
02:39that came towards the ring.
02:42I didn't understand that.
02:45My life was on the line.
02:48People lose their lives in boxing.
02:51People lose the ability
02:54to actually walk and talk in boxing.
02:57So I had the right frame of mind
03:00or I had the correct frame of mind.
03:04But now at my age,
03:07when I look back,
03:10they did me a favor.
03:13They were part of my team.
03:16Meaning that I can see
03:19that they were so mean to me,
03:22they toughened me up for the world.
03:25One beat me up all the time.
03:28Another didn't talk to me.
03:31He was like,
03:34you're an idiot.
03:37But he was happy-go-lucky and carefree.
03:40So they harmed me up
03:43because I wanted their respect.
03:46And I could not get it.
03:49And even when I won the world championship,
03:52they still said,
03:55oh, you're just a tussle.
03:59I never really won their respect
04:02because it's just a brother thing.
04:05Okay.
04:08So that's why I chose boxing.
04:11But just remember,
04:14if anyone should try to introduce you to boxing,
04:17remember that you can't go into it
04:20unless you are willing to give your life.
04:23Because if you go in as a game,
04:26you'll be found out 40 years old
04:29as though you've had a car crash
04:32and you've hit your head.
04:35You can't talk with them.
04:38It's a very, very serious matter of life.
04:41It's not a sport.
04:44Basketball, sport.
04:47Football, sport.
04:50Boxing makes kings.
04:54I'm going to take a question from this man here.
04:57You're not going to have that shoulder release.
05:00You're going to be doing it like this.
05:03But you're going to end up like this.
05:06In the mirror.
05:0920 minutes.
05:12The reason my stance is this way
05:15is because having a low center of gravity
05:18allows me to be able to put leverage
05:21into my shots.
05:29You don't know how to move.
05:32You don't know how to play.
05:35Because you want to tease your opponent
05:38you want to confuse your opponent.
05:41It doesn't happen.
05:44It isn't just about not getting hit.
05:47It's about confusing him.
05:50It's not doing anything for you.
05:53Start concentrating on you.
05:56Start looking into you.
05:59And the way you're going to do that
06:02is by following that light.
06:05And how do you do that?
06:08You do it through Sunday school.
06:11What am I talking about?
06:14Yes, the church.
06:18The spiritual understanding of what the church is about.
06:21The spiritual understanding is about
06:24knowing that you have an entity
06:27living inside of you.
06:30That entity is called...
06:33What's it called?
06:36Soul?
06:39OK.
06:42I'm looking for one word.
06:45God, yes, that's right.
06:48God is inside every one of you.
06:51We are all gods.
06:54And what I was going to say is
06:57we all have Christ inside of us.
07:00Christ is a consciousness.
07:03It is a personality.
07:06And Sunday school teaches you
07:09how to use your personality.
07:13I'm older than you.
07:16Why would you think you're going to actually outdo them?
07:19Why do you think you're going to be better than them?
07:22You're not.
07:25And only in being obedient
07:28to your teachers and principles
07:31and mother and father
07:34can you rise and be a superstar.
07:37The superstar that you want to be.
07:40I'm just thinking, did I finish the...
07:43Did I finish the...
07:46The book thing?
07:49Did I?
07:52You should have said, no, we want to see another one.
07:55No, no, no, no.
07:58Did you have a fight with Mike Tyson?
08:01I never had a fight with Mike Tyson.
08:04OK. So, true story.
08:07I went to visit Mike
08:10while he was in prison many times.
08:13In about 2009, I was in the money trap.
08:16Money is a trick.
08:19Money is a trap where people will use it
08:22to hold on to you like they pay you a wage
08:25so that you can forget about your dreams.
08:28Try to remember that.
08:31Do your own thing, guys.
08:34So, I was still in the money trap
08:37and this was about, it must have been
08:40maybe 2006, 2007.
08:43And Mike was in prison.
08:46And I said to Mike, I said, look, I've retired.
08:49I retired in 98.
08:52But I was still in the money trap.
08:55Now I have peace. Now I have just peace.
08:58Meaning that I'm not looking outside
09:02I'm not about that anymore.
09:05But at this time, I was still in the money trap.
09:08So I said to Mike, I said, Mike,
09:11you're the biggest name in this country here.
09:14I'm the biggest name.
09:17Do you think we could have a
09:20I'd like to do an exhibition match with you.
09:23I didn't have to tell you about money
09:26because obviously you need it. It's about money.
09:30You know what Mike said to me?
09:33I'll impersonate what he said.
09:36Not in his voice.
09:39But just in my voice.
09:42He said like this, come on, man.
09:45You're my friend, man.
09:53So, you see, when you're
09:56You know how ashamed I am
09:59that I asked him that question?
10:02Maybe I wouldn't be ashamed
10:05or I'd be ashamed if I asked him.
10:08If he didn't tell me those words.
10:11You're my friend, man.
10:14You're my friend.
10:17You put me in my place.
10:20So now I'm going to ask you
10:23to take a seat.
10:26Sit down.