I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
BOB HOPEEighty 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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
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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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Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life.
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Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells ‘Fore!’ the guy he’s hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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Please don’t stand up on my account.
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If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
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He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England
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A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
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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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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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I’d give up golf if I didn’t have so many sweaters.
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If you think golf is relaxing, you’re not playing it right.
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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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I like to play in the low 70’s. If it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!
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