Willard Scott Quotes

Having a phobia has changed me.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

There is something endearing about the weatherman.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

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

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

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

I talk too much. I eat too much.

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

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

I get all fired up about aging in America.

No libraries, no progress.

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

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

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

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

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

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

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.

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

I think women can cope a lot better than men.

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.