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" 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! "

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" 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

Dinner

People

Mother

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

Willard Scott

Audience

Want

" I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul. "

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

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

" Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times. "

" 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. "

" It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary. "

" 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. "

" Never slap a man who chews tobacco. "

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

" I'm a country boy. "

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

Willard Scott

Lost

Audition

" 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. "

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

" I've always had a reputation as a buffoon. "

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

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

Willard Scott

Women

Get

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

Willard Scott

Run

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

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

" The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes. "

Willard Scott

Daughter

Nice

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think women can cope a lot better than men. "

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

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