"'When I became a professional athlete, so many people told me I had to buy a house. People told me whatever you earn, three times that much is the cost of a house you can afford. As a financial planner now, I would say nothing could be further from the truth, but these were narratives that were going around at the time,' says Williams. 'I did buy too much house and I ended up selling it later on.'
Williams says it’s really easy to get caught up in the moment as a professional athlete, and not understand how to get help — or know what questions to ask in order to get help to start organizing one’s finances."