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I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

Gerald R. Ford

Baseball

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Gerald R. Ford

Love

Sports

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Gerald R. Ford

Golf

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Gerald R. Ford

Life

Enemies

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Gerald R. Ford

Experience

People

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

Gerald R. Ford

President

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Gerald R. Ford

Government

Want

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

Gerald R. Ford

American

Tragedy

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

Gerald R. Ford

Hope

Understanding

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Gerald R. Ford

America

Party