I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it’s silly to let the game get to you.
BOB HOPEI do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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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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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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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent’s handshake.
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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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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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It’s very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.
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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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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
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Television is the box they buried entertainment in.
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We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.
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Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It’s going to get us out of the house after dark!
BOB HOPE







