Willard Scott Quotes

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

I do a lot of schmoozing.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.

Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.

When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.

I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

I love commercials.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

When something's over with me, it's over.

I talk too much. I eat too much.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'