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.
BOB HOPEIf you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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Bing Crosby and I weren’t the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other.
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US President Gerald Ford’s golf was so bad we thought he was a ‘Hitman for the PGA!
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One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we’ll have her forever.
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Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here – just for me.
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
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We’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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One of our stock lines used to be “There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Bing, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me.” And that’s the way we go through life – doing nothing for each other!
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t come to Vietnam, I’d send for it.
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