Told in his own words using interviews spanning from the 1980s through now, father and tennis coach Richard Williams ret | dG1fWDQ1dXlScHZ1azQ
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00 All right, Richard.
00:02 What drove you to get your daughter on that tennis court?
00:06 That's it! She's done it!
00:09 I thought that I could live through my kids,
00:11 and I thought that I could make a million dollars.
00:14 Get in there, Faith. Get right in there, girl, Faith.
00:17 Boom! There you go, girl.
00:19 I was born in a street in Louisiana
00:22 in a neighborhood called Cedar Grove.
00:25 All my life, I had to be brave.
00:28 I should have been dead by now.
00:31 I have to go forward.
00:34 Tennis was a white sport,
00:36 and they weren't ready for this change.
00:39 He didn't know what to do with someone like Richard Williams.
00:42 An American crowd booing an American family
00:46 that it does smack of a little bit of racism.
00:49 We had a lot of people that just didn't get it.
00:52 It was terrible.
00:54 The world was not ready for Richard Williams.
00:59 Boo!
01:02 You think these kids will make a million dollars?
01:05 There's no question about it. They'll make one million look small.
01:08 [wind blowing]
01:11 [music playing]
01:14 [static]
01:15 [music playing]