Mitch Hedberg Quotes

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

I'm not a bad golfer, and I'm not the best, either.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

I have many golfer friends whom I play with, including my good friend Ian Poulter, a professional golfer who's coming to Asia to play in a few tournaments.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death.

In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.

I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that's the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.

In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet.

Golf is not easy.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.