Motivation Quote by Patty Berg

“People are what this election is all about” is the kind of line that sounds obvious until you notice what it’s pushing back against. Coming from Patty Berg - a pioneering golf champion who helped found the LPGA - it lands as a practical, locker-room corrective to politics as pageantry. She’s not offering poetry; she’s drawing a boundary: stop treating an election like a scoreboard, a personality contest, or a proxy war between parties, and remember the human stakes.

The intent is clarifying, almost coaching. Berg’s sports background matters here. Athletes live in systems that love abstraction: stats, rankings, “momentum,” narratives about grit. Elections get the same treatment - polling averages, strategy chatter, media “winners.” Her sentence yanks the conversation back to the ground level. “People” is deliberately blunt, a word with no ideological accessories. It’s also quietly inclusive: not “voters” (transactional) or “taxpayers” (economic) or “the base” (tribal), but people, full stop.

The subtext reads like impatience with insider games. If the campaign is being run for donors, consultants, or headlines, Berg’s line is a rebuke. If it’s being framed as a referendum on elites’ reputations, she’s reminding you that outcomes show up as rent, healthcare, schools, dignity.

Contextually, Berg lived through eras when women were told to stay out of politics and off the marquee. For someone who forced open space in a male-dominated sport, the sentence carries an extra edge: democracy, like opportunity, isn’t supposed to belong to the gatekeepers.