Bob Hope Quotes
I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
Hope, Bob. Confessions of a Hooker: My Lifelong Love Affair with Golf. Doubleday, 1985, p. 62.
The quotation illustrates his lower middle class background. Unlike the majority of all the Union General officers and politicians who were of the upper classes, Grant was very naive about many aspect of American life--especially of the moneyed class and big business.
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope KBE was a British-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete and author. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 54 feature films with Hope as star, including a series of seven "Road" musical comedy movies with Bing Crosby as Hope's top-billed partner.