Bob Hope: A Tribute

BOB HOPE QUOTES

On Turning 70: You still chase women, but only downhill

On Turning 80: That’s the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.

On Turning 90: You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake

On Turning 100: I don’t feel old. In fact I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.

On Giving Up His Early Career, Boxing: I ruined my hands in the ring… the referee kept stepping on them

On Never Winning An Oscar: Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it’s called at my home, ‘Passover’

On Golf: Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees

On Presidents: I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six

On Why He Chose Showbiz For His Career: When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, ‘Congratulations. You have an eight-pound ham’.

On Receiving The Congressional Gold Medal: I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it

On His Family’s Early Poverty: Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother

On His Six Brothers: That’s how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom

On His Early Failures: I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn’t for the stuff the audience threw at me

On Going To Heaven: I’ve done benefits for ALL religions. I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality