Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

Being in front of the camera - first of all, when I wanted to get into television, it was as a producer. I never had an idea that I would do anything in front of the camera, and that kind of happened by accident. But I wanted to be a producer or give me a job with the Yankees or play for the Knicks. I was a sports nut when I was a kid.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

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?

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

In some ways, being No. 2 in the ratings is a real shot in the arm, a kick in the pants.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

Every night at 6:30, my entire family sits down for dinner together. It's definitely the best part of my day.

Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer

If I feel like I've done a great job during an interview with the president of the United States live in the Oval Office, it doesn't give me a tenth of the good feeling of going to the school play and making eye contact with my kids as they're onstage delivering their lines. Nothing compares with that moment of connection.