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" I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'm a country boy. "

" Never slap a man who chews tobacco. "

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

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

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

" I talk too much. I eat too much. "

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

" I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived. "

" There is something endearing about the weatherman. "

" I get all fired up about aging in America. "

" I love commercials. "

" Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older. "