If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
BOB HOPEI was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
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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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The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
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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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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
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Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn’t know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He’s always had an agent for that.
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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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The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
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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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Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
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If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.
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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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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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Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the same time.
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