Life is not really long. Let's say the average person is 30 years old. If you're 30 years old, you're not but about 7 years old. How can I prove it? Out of all the 7, 8, 9 hours you slept for 30 years, out of 30 years, out of all the nights, last night when you went to bed and woke up this morning, you don't remember a thing.
You've been unconscious for about 8 years. If you're 30 years old, you slept about 8 years. Okay. How much traveling have you done in 30 years? From the television station to home, to another country, to another city, to school, to church.
You've probably traveled 2 years. Your life has been just getting back and forth to where you're going. So there's 8 years of sleeping, 2 years of traveling. There's 30 years out of your life before you accomplish anything.
How long do you sit and sleep?
I'm in school in America. We stay in school from the 12th grade, from the 1st grade to the 12th grade. Same here?
Yeah. Virtually.
6 hours a day?
Yeah.
6 hours a day for 12 years, break it down. You sit in the classroom for 3 years without leaving.
Okay, 2 years of traveling, 8 years of sleeping, 3 years of school. How many movies have you went to? How many wrestling matches? How much entertainment?
How many movie theaters, live plays, baseball games?
Probably.
2 years of entertainment. So by the time a man, you older people know him, bear with us on what I'm saying. By the time you have children, by the time you have made a way for your children, by the time you've paid for your home, you're pushing 60 years old.
So life is real short. So you add up all your traveling, add up all your sleeping, add up all your school, add up all your entertainment, you've probably been half your life doing nothing.
So what am I? I'm 35 years old. 30 more years, I'll be 60.
65. We don't have no more influence. We can't do nothing much at 65, your wife will tell you that.
So what I'm saying, when you're 65, when you're 65, ain't too much more to do.
So did you know I'll be 65 in 30 more years? In those 30 years, I'll have to sleep 9 years. I don't have 30 years of daylight.
I'll have to travel back to America, take 6, 7 miles. All my traveling, probably 4 years of traveling in the next 30 years.
Okay.
About 9 years of sleeping, television, movies, entertainment, about 3 years of entertainment.
Out of 30 years, I might have about 16 years to be productive.
So it's how we can all break individual lives down.
What am I going to do in the next 16 years? What's the best thing I can do?
Get ready to meet God.
Owning real estate, going in business, teaching boxers, that won't get me to heaven.
How many here believe there's a supreme being, believe there's a God?
How many believe there's something?
Some power that made the sun, the moon, the stars?
How many believe that this stuff didn't just come out here, somebody wiser than us made it?
How many believe there's a God?
How many believe there's not a God?
All right.
Believe there's not a God.
All right.
If I told you, you who don't believe in God, if I told you that this glass sprang into existence, this glass made itself, no man made this glass, would you believe it?
Would you believe I just told you this thing made itself?
No.
No.
No.
But I tell you, you wouldn't believe it, right?
No.
Somebody's doubting it.
Yeah.
So I'm giving you the answer.
She wouldn't believe it.
If I told her this television station popped into existence, it's just no man made it, you'd say Muhammad Ali's crazy.
All right.
Well, if this glass can't make itself, if I told you those clothes you have on wove themselves, nobody created them, those clothes made themselves.
You wouldn't believe it.
But if your clothes didn't make itself, if that glass couldn't make itself, if this building didn't make itself, then how did the moon get out there?
How did the stars and Jupiter and Neptune and Mars and the sun, how did nature, how did all this come here if it didn't know why something planted to make it?
So what I'm saying is I believe that we're going to be judged.
Should a man like Hitler kill all the Jews and get away with it?
Somebody should punish him.
Maybe he get it, don't get it now, he get it when he die.
In hell for eternity.
So what I'm going to do when I get out of boxing is to get myself ready to meet God because my plane might blow up.
Don't planes blow up in this country sometimes and crash?
Don't people die every day?
Not every day.
It's a scary thing to think that I'm going to hell to burn eternally forever.
So what am I going to do?
I'm explaining what you asked me a question.
You ask me questions I can't just answer like that.
When I get out of boxing, what I'm through.
I'm going to do all I can to help people.
That's why I'm here with Johnnie Walker.
Here's a poor man came all the way to America.
There's a bunch of boys need some money and somebody is calling me to help him.
God is watching me.
God is God don't praise me because I beat Joe Frazier.
God don't give nothing about Joe Frazier.
God don't care about England or America as far as we are wealth is all he is.
He wants to know how do we treat each other?
How do we help each other?
So.
I'm going to dedicate myself.
My life to using my name and popular and helping charges helping people uniting people brain people bumming each other because of religious beliefs.
We need somebody in the world to help make peace.
So when I die if there's a heaven I want to see it because we live how long 80 years the odds are bad in this room.
Some of you will be dead 20 years from now.
Some of you will be dead 50 years from now.
Some of them will be dead 30 and some will be dead 670 years.
We all going to die soon.
And if you live to be say 125 years old which we don't do right.
Let's say we live to be 250 and you can have sex for 145 of those years.
You going to come to the end after that.
So we don't have it about 80 years on Earth.
This is a test to see where will we spend our life in heaven hell.
This is not the life.
Now your real self is inside you.
Your body gets old.
Some of you go to look at the fridge you don't have no teeth.
Your hair is leaving you.
Your bodies get tired.
But your soul and your spirit never die.
That's going to live forever.
So your body is just housing your soul and spirit.
So God is testing us on how we treat each other how we live to see where our real home be in heaven.
So this physical stuff don't last so long.
So my car this building is going to be here when the man who built it dead.
There have been many kings and queens of England.
They're all dead.
After this one is gone another one will come.
So we don't stay here.
We're just trustees.
We don't own nothing.
Even your children are not yours.
If you think I'm lying your wife is not yours.
You die and come back a year later and go slip in your bedroom and see if your wife is by herself.
See you don't own your wife.
You know I divorced my wife.
You may have read about it and my four children.
They call another man daddy.
Now they don't see me no more.
You don't own your children.
You don't own your family.
So what am I saying?
The most important thing about life is what's going to happen when you die.
Are you going to go to heaven or hell and that's eternity.
How long is eternity?
Let's imagine take the Sahara Desert.
There's a lot of sand on the Sahara Desert, right?
Then take imagine that one grain of sand represents a thousand years.
And when you inhale burning when you die and go to hell you're going to burn forever and ever and ever no end.
How long is that?
Give you an idea how long eternity is.
Take the Sahara Desert and I told you to wait a thousand years.
And every thousand years I want you to pick up a grain of sand until the desert is empty.
Okay, wait a thousand years pick up the first grain.
Wait another thousand years before you get the next grain.
Keep that up until there's no more sand in the desert.
You know how long it's just a...
I mean America's not but 200 years old.
We got 800 more years.
400 years to go before a thousand.
So it just scares me to think that I'm going to die one day and go to hell.
I'm on an airplane that might blow up.
I'm always traveling and to go to hell and God is going to judge my soul.
The police, I might kill people.
I might rob people.
The authorities might not catch me.
The FBI, Scotland Yard might not catch me.
But when I die somebody is watching me and keeping count and I can't get away.
And I'm going to burn forever and ever and ever I'll go to heaven.
So what am I going to do when I'm through fighting?
I only have 16 years to be productive.
Get myself ready to meet God and go to the best place.
Don't that make sense?
Thank you.