Words matter. These are the best Willard Scott Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It was a big story and yesterday’s soup. Who cares?
You go from Pampers to Depends!
I’ve always had a reputation as a buffoon.
I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
Take a microphone out of my hands, and I’m just plain folks.
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
I talk too much. I eat too much.
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.
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.
These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
I do a lot of schmoozing.
Nature’s a tranquilizer as you get older.
I’m not the dumbest guy that ever lived.
Will Rogers was an American hero – someone you could get your teeth into and love.
When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don’t talk. You have no friends.
There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.
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’ve produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they’ve all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
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.
I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
Everything I’ve ever done in my life has been a fluke.
When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.
I love commercials.
I’d like to do ‘Saturday Night Live.’
I’m a country boy.
When something’s over with me, it’s over.
I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I’ll say, ‘I’m in awful shape, something is wrong,’ and if I start to look like I’m going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, ‘You’re all right. Calm down.’ Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.
I’m Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
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.
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.
As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.
I think women can cope a lot better than men.
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.
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.
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.
