Willard Scott famous quotes

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

#Teacher #Thoughtful #People

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.
-- Willard Scott

#Positive #Family #Personality

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
-- Willard Scott

#Jobs #Broadcasting

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

#Looking Good #Plenty

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.
-- Willard Scott

#Mother #People #Cooking

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.
-- Willard Scott

#Years #Clouds #Vision

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.
-- Willard Scott

#Dream #Watches #Want

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.
-- Willard Scott

#Kids #Thinking #People

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

#Hands #Microphones #Folks

I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
-- Willard Scott

#Night #Saturday Night #Saturday Night Live

Having a phobia has changed me.
-- Willard Scott

#Changed #Phobia

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

#People #Ego #No Friends

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

#Tragedy #Today #Unnecessary

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

#Weather #Complaining

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.
-- Willard Scott

#People #World #Eating

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.
-- Willard Scott

#Daughter #Nice #Air

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!
-- Willard Scott

#Jobs #Anchors #Weather

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
-- Willard Scott

#Two #Grandparent #Privilege

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

#Yesterday #Care #Soup

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
-- Willard Scott

#Southern #Baptists #Meteorologists

I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
-- Willard Scott

#Tired #Want #Today

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
-- Willard Scott

#Men #Slap #Tobacco

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.
-- Willard Scott

#School #Class #Feet

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

#Weather #Gimmicks #These Days

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

#Hero #Roger #And Love

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
-- Willard Scott

There is something endearing about the weatherman.
-- Willard Scott

#Weathermen #Endearing

I talk too much. I eat too much.
-- Willard Scott

#Too Much

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

#Hilarious #Ego #Accepted

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
-- Willard Scott

#Reputation

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.
-- Willard Scott

#Guy

I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.
-- Willard Scott

#Running

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.
-- Willard Scott

#Dad #Average #Agents

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

#People #Mail #Next

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.
-- Willard Scott

#Depressing #August #Littles

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.
-- Willard Scott

#Children #Training #Television

When something's over with me, it's over.
-- Willard Scott

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.
-- Willard Scott

#Minutes #Calisthenics

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

#Tvs #Critics

I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
-- Willard Scott

#Dresses

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

#Done #Flukes

I think women can cope a lot better than men.
-- Willard Scott

#Men #Thinking

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.
-- Willard Scott

#Inspirational #Retirement #Years

No libraries, no progress.
-- Willard Scott

#Progress #Library

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
-- Willard Scott

#Math #Years #People

I get all fired up about aging in America.
-- Willard Scott

#Birthday #America #Aging

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
-- Willard Scott

#Remember #Garlands #Retired

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

#Pilots #Auditions #Disaster

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

#Air #Half #Mail

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.
-- Willard Scott

#America #People #Hobbies

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

#Kind #Wonderful #All Kinds

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

#Children #Insecure #Only Child

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

#Mcdonalds #Week

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.
-- Willard Scott

#Heart #Harry Truman #Soul

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

#Uncles #Weather #Figures

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.
-- Willard Scott

#Nbc #Division #Fields