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Willard Scott
1934 – 2021 • American • Entertainer
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Showing 58 quotesI 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.— Willard Scott
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
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
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
When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.— Willard Scott
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
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
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.— Willard Scott