About Willard Scott: Willard Herman Scott, Jr. is an American weather presenter, author, television personality and occasional actor, best known for his TV work on the Today show and as the creator and original portrayer of Ronald McDonald.
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.'...
I think women can cope a lot better than men.
Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
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.
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.
I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.
I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.
I do a lot of schmoozing.
Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
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.
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.
When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.
The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
You go from Pampers to Depends!
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.
