In a statement
about the ad, Williams said she hadn't started playing tennis with the
explicit intention of breaking down barriers, but that, «Over time, I became much more conscious of the impact I had, and I became more conscious of what I had to do to make a difference.»
It also was a rhetorical one: most central banks, including the the Bank of Canada, resort to
explicit statements
about their policy
intentions only in the case of an emergency.