105 Quotes by Matt Lauer

I'm lucky: I have very funny kids.

When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.

I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.

I knew I wanted to work in television because some friends of mine, when I went to high school - their fathers worked for, as a matter of fact, for NBC Sports at the time.

My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?

This is the best job in television. I grew up watching the 'Today show.'

You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.

I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

I like getting rid of things. I really do.