Golfer Gary Player Calls out Obese and Lazy Americans

We brought you news earlier today about Danica Patrick’s opinions regarding nudity in ESPN the Magazine’s “Body Issue,” but now it is time for some perspective from 77-year-old golf legend Gary Player. Let’s just say he thinks all of you are bloated sacks of fat.

Player posed nude of this year’s issue, proud of his body honed by decades of golfing. When asked about the laziness and unhealthiness of Americans, Player was ruthless.

Via For the Win/ USA Today:

"55 percent of the greatest country in the world is obese? How can you compete against the Chinese? You haven’t got a chance! People that are lean and mean and working hard and producing maybe 100 engineers to every two or three that you produce. Kids that are learning like crazy at school and spending hours learning. You go to Korea and those kids finish school at 7 o’clock at night because there’s no sense of entitlement. It frustrates me because I happen to have 15 American grandchildren. I love America but I get so upset at the way I see the obesity. I just don’t see how the healthcare system can work. I pray it does but I just don’t see how it can work with this tsunami of obesity."

Player also explained how he stays in such great shape:

"I’m so fit and strong. I could get a heart attack, that can happen in life. But damn it all man, I get up in the morning at six o’clock. I work on my ranch. I mix cement. This morning, I stood there with a guy, we’re doing a new land. For three hours I helped pick up rocks. Now I’m in such great shape. I climb a mountain, I swim in my pool. I walk and I exercise. I don’t ask anyone on my ranch to do anything that I wouldn’t do. You got to keep your body moving, moving, moving."

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here isn’t any news about if Player is going to release a rock lifting/cement mixing workout tape, but we’ll be the first to bring it to you if he does.

[Source: For the Win/USA Today]