Willie Geist Quotes

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.

I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself.

Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious.

I hate to make this point too often, but imagine for a moment George W. Bush were on his sixth vacation, and he was asked about Iraq, and he said 'I'm buying shrimp.' You think that wouldn't be a headline everywhere?

In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while.

Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.

I've had two pedicures in my life, and they were glorious.

I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.

When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

Chris Rock is a very funny man.

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.

I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

When you work in TV long enough, you tend to get a little jaded with different things you have to deal with.

What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?

I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.

Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come.

My routine is to ride that snooze button as far as it will take me, take a quick shower, get dressed in the dark and bolt out the door.

The thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent.

The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes.

I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.

I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.

Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

I was a landscaper for three years and loved it.

The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.

I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address.