THE BEST YOU WEALTH & RICHES
SERENA WILLIAMS GUIDANCE AND BRILLIANCE
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
American tennis player Serena Jameka Williams
was born in 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan. Her father, a one-time sharecropper decided early to train his girls to succeed. He moved them to Compton, California, a deprived area, to show them their future if they didn't work hard. When she was three he began practising tennis with his daughter on potholed courts for two hours a day. Working from tennis books and videos, though he had no training, by 1991 he took Serena to first ranking in the the US Tennis Association 10-and- unders. Professional coaching soon followed when he moved the family to Florida. Serena turned pro in 1995. Already 99 in the world
rankings, she graduated high school in 1998 and signed a $12 million shoe deal with Puma. In 1999, she won her first of many Grand Slams with the U.S. Open title. Selected by people magazine as one of its 25 Most
Intriguing People and by Essence magazine as one of the country's 50 Most Inspiring African-Americans, she and her sister dominated the woman's game. By 2006 though, Serena seemed burned out. Her
tennis ranking slumped to 139, but religious faith and a life-changing journey to Africa revitalised her. By 2009 she was top of the world's rankings again.
CHRIS BRASHER A MAN OF MANY TALENTS
There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.
Chris Brasher, was an Olympic champion athlete, mountaineer, writer, television executive and entrepreneur. His greatest legacy to British life was the London Marathon, the world's largest single charity event. Born in Georgetown, British Guiana, the son of a radio engineer, he was schooled in England. At St John's College, Cambridge, his talent at middle-distance running blossomed and in 1951 he won the World Student Games 5000 metres and was second in the 1500 metres. Turning to longer distances, he paced Dr Roger
Bannister in 1954, to help him achieve the record- breaking four-minute mile and won gold at the 1956 Olympics in the steeplechase. He went on to bring orienteering to the UK became
a journalist and then head of general features at the BBC. He was also an innovator, designing a lightweight walking boot, while his sportswear store the Sweat Shop became the model for dozens of stores around the country. After the start of Brasher's greatest innovation, the London Marathon, he went on to become passion about horseracing. By the time of his death in 2003 he had eight horses in training. Brasher showed that steady determination, vision and enthusiasm could bring huge benefits not only to himself, but to the world.
WITH HER SIGNATURE STYLE, HER PHYS- ICAL ATHLETICISM AND HER DETERMINA- TION, SERENA WILLIAMS IS ONE OF THE GREATS OF THE TENNIS WORLD. HER STORY IS NOT ONLY ONE OF PERSONAL DRIVE, BUT OF TEAM WORK AND CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION FROM A FATHER DETERMINED TO HELP HER TO THE TOP." – BERNARDO MOYA
CHRIS BRASHER WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING OTHERS ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS AS WELL AS CREATING HIS OWN. HIS EASY ATHLETICISM, DRIVE AND INTELLIGENCE MADE HIM A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH WHOSE LEGACY LIVES ON AT THE LONDON MARATHON.
– BERNARDO MOYA
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