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Richard Williams Quotes

b. 1942

Richard Dove Williams Jr. (born February 14, 1942) is an American former tennis coach and the father of tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.

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I have never seen a girl that the public takes to as much as they do Venus.

On maybe 300, she'd swing and miss completely.

Serena is going to be better than Venus.

Time for everyone to stand up and be responsible. And that's the problem with most black people. In their minds, they are in chains. They are enslaved.

It's not important anymore for them to be good players. It used to be. No more. What I want is for them to be good human beings.

If she stays in tennis until she is 23, [Venus] will have $1 billion easy .... She will be the highest-paid player in the history of tennis.

Because she loved it too much. I wasn't looking to develop a tennis player, I was looking to develop a human being.

They can help you get your English together. They can teach you how to go to work, work like a mule, and live like a dog. But they don't teach you how to make money. They just teach you to get a job and in 25 or 30 years, get a watch, a pat on the back.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.