I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
BOB HOPEWhenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome – the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
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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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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
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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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That’s life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.
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I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, “Don’t worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it’s obsolete.”
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I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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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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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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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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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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