Willie Geist
Willie Geist
William Russell "Willie" Geistis an American television personality, journalist and humorist. He is co-anchor of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-anchor of NBC's Today's Take the third hour of The Today Show, and anchor of Sunday Today with Willie Geist. Geist also frequently serves as fill-in anchor on Today for Matt Lauer. Geist is a Correspondent for NBC News and NBC Sports, hosting and contributing to NBC's Olympic coverage...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth3 May 1975
CityEvanston, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.
Everyone worries about their kids, of course, but you can drive yourself nuts thinking about all the horrible things in the world - and many, many people do. I believe life is to be lived and not survived.
Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.
In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while.
High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.
If the relentless personal maintenance plan has taken over your life, give it a rest.
I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.
I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.
The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes.
It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference.
I've had two pedicures in my life, and they were glorious.
If you're one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don't leave early. You just don't. If it's a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don't leave early.
I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.