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.

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

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.

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

There is something endearing about the weatherman.

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

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.