Willard Scott Quotes

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

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

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

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

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

If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

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

There is something endearing about the weatherman.

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

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

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

No libraries, no progress.

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

Having a phobia has changed me.

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

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

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

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

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?

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

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

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

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

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

I talk too much. I eat too much.

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've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.

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 critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

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

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

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

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.