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[In a Scottish Accent] Here's my idea for a fucking sport...I knock a ball into a gopher hole. 'Oh you mean like pool?' Fuck off pool! Not with a straight stick. With a little fucked up stick. I whack the ball, it goes in a gopher hole. 'Oh like croquet?' Fuck croquet! I put the hole hundreds of yards away. Oh yeah, whack the ball and it goes in the little fucking hole! 'Oh, so it's like a bowling thing?' Fuck no! Not straight, I put shit in the way! Like trees and bushes and high grass! So you can lose your fucking ball and go whackin' away with a tire iron. Whackin' away, and each time you miss you feel like you're gonna have a stroke. Fuck! That's what we'll call it! A stroke, cause every time you miss you feel like you're gonna fucking die! Oh great and here's the best part-oh fuck this is brilliant! Right near the end I'll put a little flat piece with a little tiny flag to give you fucking hope! But then I'll put a pool and a sandbox to fuck with your ball again! You'll be trashin' yer arse, jerkin' away in the sand, ah-hah! 'And you do this one time?'... FUCK NO! EIGHTEEN FUCKIN' TIMES!

Robin Williams#50

FrustrationSportStressViolence

About this quote

What does it mean?
Williams invents golf as a violent, stressful, frustration-based sport.
In plain terms
He describes a game where missing causes rage and near-death feels.
What can you take from it?
Sports can create unnecessary emotional stress.

Where it applies

  • game design
  • sports discussion
  • venting

Putting it to work

  • game concept
  • comedic description
  • critique

Questions to consider

  • Why do games frustrate?
  • When does fun turn to stress?

Another view

The image ignores the peaceful aspects of golf.

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