Quotes from Willard Scott

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

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.

Having a phobia has changed me.

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.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

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

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

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.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

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.

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.

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

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

I love commercials.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

You go from Pampers to Depends!