“Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.”

“The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.”

“If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.”

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

“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 hous...”

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

“God and government can work together”

“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who really know how to manage things. But the governme...”

“In our country let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy Nigeria unity.”

“I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.”

“I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the...”

“Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”