Failure is the only thing I’ve ever been a success at.
BOB HOPENow that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here – just for me.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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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’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
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If my golf game was a prize fight, they’d stop it.
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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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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes.
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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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I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
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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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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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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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