Pretty Cool Story About Serena Williams Trying To Deposit Her First Million Dollar Check At The Bank Drive Through
Source - Serena Williams may be one of the world’s highest-paid female athletes, but she says she’s never been motivated by the money.
“I’ve actually never played for money — I just thought you would go out there and hold a trophy,” Williams said on “Kneading Dough,” the personal-finance video series produced by LeBron James’ media company, Uninterrupted.
“Not once did I think about a check,” Williams told sports business manager Maverick Carter.
“I just played for the love of the sport,” said Williams, who has won 23 Grand Slam titles, one fewer than the world-record holder Margaret Court. It comes as no surprise then that when Williams received her first million-dollar check she kept it safely in the bank.
“I never touched [the money] — just put it in the bank,” she said. “And I remember I went through the drive-thru to deposit my check, and then they were like, ‘I think you need to come in for this,’ and so I ended up going inside … ‘Just put it in my account!'”
Williams also said her father and longtime coach was “always hands-on” but never demanded a fee or a cut of her earnings, and he told her it was up to her to decide how she would spend her money.
You hear a lot of stories about athletes claiming they “don’t care about money” and ninety-nine percent of them seem like bullshit. Serena Williams is part of the one percent that doesn’t. It’s crazy to think that arguably the most accomplished athlete (23 grand slams don’t @ me) of our generation is also the humblest. She could easily go around and flaunt her $86 million or film her workouts like certain NBA starts but she doesn’t. She puts her head down, gets to work, and fucking destroys her competition.
I’ve never held a million-dollar check, Barstool deposits those directly into my checking account, but I can imagine it must’ve been just as confusing for the teller as it was for Serena. “Umm, miss…you do realize this check is for one million dollars, correct?” “Yeah, put half in my checking and half in savings.” To be fair, I get why she didn’t want to go in; it’s an embarrassing amount of money. People are depositing their $1000 weekly pay checks and you walk in with a million bucks you look like an asshole. But at the same time, they probably should’ve just let her stay in her car. I mean it’s not like they couldn’t do it. They probably just wanted a picture.
Whatever the case, Serena Williams is a God and I love her. And if I can get half the muscle definition that she has my GFC (gay follower count) would go through the roof. Oh and I’m looking forward to watching her dominate her matches for the ten years.