Motivation Quote by Tracy Austin

Tracy Austin’s line lands like a small act of correction: a Hall of Fame player using her platform to reroute praise from the obvious stars to the architect in the background. Naming Richard Williams, not just Venus and Serena, pushes against the default sports story where greatness is treated like a solo miracle. Her word choice does quiet work. “We’ve gotta” is communal and urgent, less compliment than obligation, as if the sport itself owes a debt it’s been slow to pay. “Give...credit” frames recognition as something that can be withheld by gatekeepers - coaches, commentators, institutions - and Austin is nudging that gate open.

The phrase “to give us” is especially loaded. It suggests the Williams sisters weren’t merely personal triumphs; they were a gift to tennis, a jolt of talent and charisma that expanded the audience and changed the game’s center of gravity. Austin isn’t praising Richard for raising successful kids in the abstract. She’s praising a strategic intervention: the audacity to train two Black girls from outside tennis’s traditional pipelines into the sport’s top ranking, then shepherd them through the skepticism, scrutiny, and stereotypes that came with that disruption.

Calling it a “phenomenal feat” is both admiration and understatement. Two “number one champions” from one parent isn’t just rare; it’s a rebuke to the idea that champions are born, not built. Austin’s intent is to underline the construction - planning, sacrifice, stubborn belief - and to legitimize the sometimes-controversial figure of Richard Williams as central, not peripheral, to modern tennis history.