Willard Scott Quotes - Page 2

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

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 something's over with me, it's over.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

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.

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.

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

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

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

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

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

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

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

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

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

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.

I talk too much. I eat too much.

I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'

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

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

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