Willard Scott

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.

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

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

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.

I'm a country boy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

I talk too much. I eat too much.

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

I do a lot of schmoozing.

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

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'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'

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

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.

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