Serena Williams has announced her upcoming retirement from tennis.
These 5 moments show why she’s the greatest of all time … even off the court.
These 5 moments show why she’s the greatest of all time … even off the court.
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00:00I have three S's, so it means Serena, sure, and strong.
00:03I'm the first, actually, black woman to win a major title since Althea Gibson that was
00:19in 41 years.
00:20It's good news for the minorities and just a different group of people.
00:24We were able to break the mold in a sport that was just really dominated by white people
00:30and to have a base of color that can come in and do the same and dominate, let people
00:36know that it doesn't matter what your background is and where you come from, if you have dreams
00:41and you have goals, that's all that really matters.
00:47I really think a champion is defined not by their wins, but how they can recover when
00:53they fall, and I've fallen several times, and each time I just get up and I dust myself
00:58off and I pray and I'm able to do better or I'm able to get back to the level that I want
01:04to be on, and so I feel really, really awesome that I have been able to do that and that
01:09I can do that and I have done that, and I think, for me, you see great people, like
01:17Muhammad Ali, for instance, is a complete person that I really have always looked up
01:21to in sports.
01:22He went to jail for so long and he came back as a champion again.
01:26Especially us, women of color, we really have to support each other because I always like
01:37to say that women really should support each other because the success of one woman should
01:42be the inspiration to the next, and if we look at it that way, there will be so much
01:46more that we can accomplish.
01:52Being a mom is something incredibly special and I've embarked on a really good journey
01:57and it's probably the best journey of my life and I love it so much, you know, it's pretty
02:05awesome.
02:06I love playing tennis, I love, mostly I love being a full-time mom, I love, I've been with
02:12her every day of her life, I haven't missed a day, and I love that she gives me that love
02:18back.
02:19I love when I walk in the room and she's with her dad, she runs to me, it makes me feel
02:25really good, which is sad, but I am a competitor at heart, so.
02:36One in four women are affected by domestic violence and of that, 99% are actually affected
02:42by financial abuse, which I think is super important to point out, and these numbers
02:48are insane and completely staggering, and it's important to bring awareness to it.
02:52As a mother of a daughter, for me, this means even more to me, this could be something that
02:58my daughter could face, and that's not cool, I don't want her to be a part of that awful
03:03statistic of 99% of women that are going through financial abuse.
03:07I think expanding the conversation to men, and expanding the conversation to young boys,
03:14it's so important to let them know that women and people, this is a human rights issue,
03:20we should all be treated the same, we should be treated equal.
03:23With domestic abuse it doesn't care what color you are, what background you're from, it can
03:28affect all women of any, of any, however they look.
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