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.

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.

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.

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

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

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