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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.

— Richard 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.

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