Boxer Chris Eubank visits Smethwick School.

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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.

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