If my golf game was a prize fight, they’d stop it.
BOB HOPEWe’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn’t know they had a caddie division.
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I’d give up golf if I didn’t have so many sweaters.
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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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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
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At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
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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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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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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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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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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 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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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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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.
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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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