I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
BOB HOPEDid you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn’t hear them.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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It’s a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he’s dead.
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
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The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear’s huge jaws. I wouldn’t even try that with my agent.
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The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I’ve encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE – and a maid to press it for me.
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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.
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It’s a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you’ll be able to watch it all on TV.
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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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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
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Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome – the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
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Television. That’s where movies go when they die.
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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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YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.
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America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan – Go for the Gold.
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I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?
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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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