Quotes from Al Roker

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable–much like the weather!

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.

Pulitzer was the first to cram a paper with pictures and games under shrieking headlines. He offered eight packed pages of thrilling content for only two cents.

John Harvey Kellogg's sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. There

This was truly the worst natural disaster Americans had ever seen. While death tolls would always be imperfect, it's fair to say that around 10,000 people perished in one night. And

Texas and the American South, and indeed throughout the rest of the booming country as well. Even

While African Americans had long played important roles in civic life, while the docks had seen the progress of the Negro Longshoreman's Union, and while all kinds of people mingled in the city streets, much of Galveston's social and political life had long involved rigid racial segregation.

Only a fellow white Protestant did not require such

fifty states, taking

And Willis Moore, the bureau director, who did so much in 1900 to deny the reality—first the existence, and then the path—of the most destructive hurricane ever to arrive in the United States, and did so much to prevent Galvestonians from learning about it in advance, continued his career too. As director, Moore oversaw such changes in weather technology as

Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.

When it comes to dieting, I'm the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don't like to count points, etc. I don't want to have a lot of choices.

I try to get in two runs during the week, after the 'Today' show, probably around 1 or 2 o'clock, Tuesday, Thursday. Then Saturday or Sunday, I do my longer runs and try to do it in the morning.

We try to eat at home four or five days a week.

I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost about 100 pounds and within a year gained it all back.

I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.

Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know what? You can always have a small piece of pie, and I like pie. I don't know anybody who doesn't like pie. If somebody doesn't like pie, I don't trust them. I'll bet you Vladimir Putin doesn't like pie.

I have one of those Garmin watches, and I'm OCD about downloading my runs no matter where I go. I used it on an 18-mile run in Paris, a 12-miler in the mountains of Montana, a couple of runs in the Bahamas. Wherever I am, I try to run. That's what's so great about it.

All middle-income families use carbs to stretch meals, across any ethnic group - whether it's kugel or rice and beans or macaroni and cheese. I remember having pancakes for dinner. But as kids, we thought, 'Breakfast for dinner? This is great.'

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!