Motivation Quote by Rogers Hornsby

Hornsby’s line is a perfect little manifesto from a working-era superstar who treated sports less like leisure and more like labor with a scoreboard. The joke lands because it flips the supposed purity of golf on its head: why would an elite competitor choose a game where the reward for doing the hard part well is... doing even more hard part? In baseball, the pleasure is divisible. You hit; the world reacts. Fielders sprint, fans roar, the game rearranges itself around your action. Golf, by contrast, is a private contract: you create the problem and then you, personally, must solve it.

The intent is comic, but the subtext is sharper: Hornsby is defending a particular hierarchy of athletic satisfaction. He’s not just lazy; he’s asserting that the point of excellence is agency and consequence, not quiet self-management. There’s also a class-coded sting. Golf is famously a game of space, time, and access; baseball, especially in Hornsby’s era, was a job you could grind your way into. “Someone else to go chase it” sounds like entitlement, but it’s really an employee’s complaint about unpaid overtime.

Context matters: Hornsby was known as intense, blunt, and almost monastic about hitting. This quip reads like the anti-hobby of a man who didn’t romanticize sport. He wanted competition, not contemplation; results, not a walk spoiled.