Willard Scott
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.Collection: Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.Collection: Thanksgiving
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.Collection: Family
I get all fired up about aging in America.Collection: Age
When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.
There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.
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.
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.
I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
Having a phobia has changed me.
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.
Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
I think women can cope a lot better than men.
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
You go from Pampers to Depends!
Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.
I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
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.
The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.
Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.
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!
Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.
I love commercials.
I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.
Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.
There is something endearing about the weatherman.
As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.
I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
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.
I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
I do a lot of schmoozing.
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 talk too much. I eat too much.
Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.
When something's over with me, it's over.
I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
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.