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

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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. "

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

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

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

" Having a phobia has changed me. "

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

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" In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a country boy. "

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

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

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

" You go from Pampers to Depends! "

" There is something endearing about the weatherman. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "