Daily Inspiration Quote by Robert Stack

A neat little brag disguised as a self-own, Robert Stack's line works because it flatters everyone in the room while pretending to flatter no one. "I play bad golf" is the strategic humility: he casts himself as the harmless celebrity duffer, lowering expectations and inviting laughter. But the joke doesn't actually land on him. It lands on the social machinery of the charity circuit, where fame is the real handicap and golf is just the excuse.

The phrase "for good charities" signals moral cover, the standard alibi for a leisure sport that often reads, culturally, as country-club insulation. Stack punctures that insulation by naming a specific beneficiary: "like the LA Police". That choice is loaded. The LAPD isn't a warm-and-fuzzy cause; it's civic power, controversy, and public relations. By calling it a "good" charity, Stack sidesteps debate with an almost deadpan confidence, as if the label is both obvious and slightly absurd. The laugh comes from the tension: we recognize the ritual of calling any fundraiser "good", even when the institution in question carries baggage.

As an actor, Stack is also playing a role: the genial insider who knows how Hollywood philanthropy actually works. The subtext is transactional but not sinister: celebrity buys goodwill, institutions buy glamour, and the public buys the story that the outing matters because it has a cause attached. Stack's punchline is that the cause may be less about need than about belonging.