Willard Scott Quotes
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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.
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I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
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Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
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The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
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Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
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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!
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Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
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Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
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It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
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These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
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Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.
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I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
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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.
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Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
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I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.
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I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
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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.
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Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
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Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.
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I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
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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.
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I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
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There is something endearing about the weatherman.
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No libraries, no progress.