WILLARD SCOTT

I do a lot of schmoozing.

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

You go from Pampers to Depends!

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

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.

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

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.

Having a phobia has changed me.

I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.