Top 50 Willard Scott Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Willard Scott

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2. “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.”

— Willard Scott

3. “Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.”

— Willard Scott

4. “I talk too much. I eat too much.”

— Willard Scott

5. “It’s simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it’s so unnecessary.”

— Willard Scott

6. “Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.”

— Willard Scott

7. “Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.”

— Willard Scott

8. “When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don’t talk. You have no friends.”

— Willard Scott

9. “A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.”

— Willard Scott

10. “Never slap a man who chews tobacco.”

— Willard Scott

11. “If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.”

— Willard Scott

12. “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.”

— Willard Scott

13. “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.”

— Willard Scott

14. “Nature’s a tranquilizer as you get older.”

— Willard Scott

15. “Bryant Gumbel’s ego has applied for statehood. And if it’s accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.”

— Willard Scott

16. “Take a microphone out of my hands, and I’m just plain folks.”

— Willard Scott

17. “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.”

— Willard Scott

18. “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.”

— Willard Scott

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

— Willard Scott

20. “I’d like to do ‘Saturday Night Live.’”

— Willard Scott

21. “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!”

— Willard Scott

22. “I’ve always had a reputation as a buffoon.”

— Willard Scott

23. “I’m not the dumbest guy that ever lived.”

— Willard Scott

24. “No libraries, no progress.”

— Willard Scott

25. “Having a phobia has changed me.”

— Willard Scott

26. “I’m Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.”

— Willard Scott

27. “These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.”

— Willard Scott

28. “I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.”

— Willard Scott

29. “There is something endearing about the weatherman.”

— Willard Scott

30. “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.”

— Willard Scott

31. “August depresses me a little. I don’t even feel like eating. And when I don’t eat, that’s a sure sign of stagnation.”

— Willard Scott

32. “I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.”

— Willard Scott

33. “When something’s over with me, it’s over.”

— Willard Scott

34. “I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.”

— Willard Scott

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

— Willard Scott

36. “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

37. “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

38. “I run me like a conglomerate, because that’s what I am.”

— Willard Scott

39. “I get all fired up about aging in America.”

— Willard Scott

40. “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

41. “As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.”

— Willard Scott

42. “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.”

— Willard Scott

43. “Will Rogers was an American hero – someone you could get your teeth into and love.”

— Willard Scott

44. “The critics – how come you never see any of them on TV?”

— Willard Scott

45. “It was a big story and yesterday’s soup. Who cares?”

— Willard Scott

46. “Viewers figure, ‘Uncle Willard doesn’t know any more about the weather than I do.’ They’re right.”

— Willard Scott

47. “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

48. “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

49. “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

50. “Everything I’ve ever done in my life has been a fluke.”

— Willard Scott