He made a good point about athletes earning money with no education or plan. If you have no respect for money and how best to invest, save and use it, then you being a millionaire just because you're a successful athlete might not end well. Its like many of those boxers; they earnt 100's of millions, so much more than the average person would earn in a lifetime, yet they some how end up bankrupt.
Serena is the world's best tennis player I love that she gives what she thinks I agree with everything she says that is why she is number 1 in the world
hey serena i think i love your dad...what a great man... individual accomplishment needs more than one persons acknowledgement.. congratulations on many aspects on successful living.
Stargate669, there are many middle class families in that area. Richard Williams himself was a security company manager/owner and Brandi Williams was a nurse. The Williamses were middle class -- but maybe "deprived" compared to what they have now. :-) One of Venus's and Serena's older sisters had a summer job in a clothing store and got to spend some of her earnings on "cute clothes for school" and save the rest. Sounds like the family was far from starving! One of their sisters is a lawyer.
Not sure why Richard continue to suggest that they were poor. They had way too many mouths to feed. Yes. That was their choice. Richard earned 60,000 a year and his wife was a registered nurse. No. They were not poor. It makes for a good story though.
Vincent Oyemayowa Sanwo but they lived in Compton. My parents came from Nigeria and we weren't poor... but we lived in inner city NYC in the 90s, and i had no choice but to attend poor- performing public schools with low income black kids, because even tho mom was a nurse and dad was a teacher, we still couldn't afford to move into a better neighborhood with better performing public schools. 1. starting from scratch, we simply didn't have enough $$ to move into a white middle-class neighborhood (those homes cost around $750,000, and are mostly 1-family homes, so u can't even rent out a portion to help pay the mortgage). Most middle class white families had the benefit of generational wealth that allowed them to inherit their homes, and 2. red lining was rampant in real estate. Ppl didn't rent or sell to blacks, and there were ZERO integrated neighborhoods. A middle class income can help sustain a family, but it's not enough to make that initial home purchase. you'd have to be upper middle class to pull that off. So even if you make money, if you can't get out the low income neighborhood, you're still subjected to all the obstacles that arise from living in a poor area (insecurity, subpar education, no afterschool programs = bad crowds of kids/ rampant gang culture, drugs in the community...)
notice the same people calling serena a man even in a video clearly showing her as a 12 year old girl, are the same people who will vote for Trump or take offense to a black lives matter sign and feel threatened by any strengthening of others they don't relate to. lmao
How wonderful. Serena and Venus are so fortunate. They are family-oriented, spiritually-devout, humorous, kind, highly skilled, intelligent, and multi-talented. And they have their parents, in part, to thank for bringing them up to have those marvelous attributes. Richard Williams is a genius! And their mom, Brandi, is great, too!
the legends of tennis !!! serena has a career golden grand slam...she is better than over hyped maria sharapova..maria sharapova never lived up to the hype and will end like justin henin
?! Dusty Boyer, Richard Williams is no "psycho!" One of the early (white) coaches of the Williams sisters (when they were children) wrote a book in which he states that the Williams sisters were the most POLITE children he'd ever coached --and he'd coached HUNDREDS of children. The coach gave a lot of credit to Mr. Williams who he said would stop Venus and Serena from practicing for weeks at a time to take the family to Disney World and the like because he wanted them to have happy childhoods.
Lawrence Porter Nope. Steffi Graf is actually a little taller than Serena Williams. Serena Williams is about 5'9-5'10. Steffi Graf's about an inch or an inch & a half taller than Serena. I've seen them standing next to one another at the net after their 1999 Indian Wells final.
+Invent the future Check with the FBI. If they don't have, definitely try the NSA since they have files on all Americans since birth.. Google Akwei VS NSA..
Yeh she should be 1. After all, she beats all the top 5 players easily. She killed azarenka on her worst surface, and would love to play sharapova with the shakey service games.
@haywood16 Richard Williams sold his business to devote his time to his daughters. Thw Williams sisters was in Macci's academy and last time I checked that shit wasn't free. You think they didn't have to pay
yes ive met him too congrats lol yes hes a psycho ive been to the us open 10 years in a row and the2 sisters r the only 2 that wont sign cuz the dad makes them not thats not crazy at all huh?
This is exactly why you shouldnt judge a book by its cover when your young. She wasnt the cutest girl then but she looks hella sexy now and shes wealthy and smart. so all you kids dont make fun cause you never know!
Dusty Boyer,Mr.Richard Williams is not "psycho!" The Williams' sisters 3rd coach, after their dad (1) and their mom (2), was a white coach who was highly sought after. That coach wrote a book in which he stated that Richard Williams was a great father who stopped the girls from practicing for weeks at a time so he could take the entire family to Disney World.He wanted them to have happy childhoods.The coach also stated that the Williams sisters were the most POLITE children he'd ever coached!
if the USTSA was smart, theyd be knocking on the doors of richard williams and oracene prices to help develop more american juniors. they produced two of the greatest tennis players of all time from the same home. they are tennis geniuses.
?! Serena and Venus focused on education AND tennis. They were both Honors students. Venus graduated from a prestigious design college with HONORS. They're father emphasized education and his daughters are the better for it. Serena and Venus both have successful design companies.
?!? That was an innocent 12 year-old child! If you're crazy enough to have a "problem" with something as superficial as "looks," take it up with GOD, who made her!
