She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
BOB HOPEI ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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It was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, ‘What do I do next?’ Pat replied, ‘Wait till the pain dies down.’
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We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.
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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra.
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We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.
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It’s amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn’t sell theirs threw them away.
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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I have too much money invested in sweaters.
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Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It’s in the lease.
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I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.
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