Quotes from Willard Scott

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

I get all fired up about aging in America.

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

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

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

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.

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

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.

I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

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.

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

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.

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

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

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.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.