Top 45 Monday Night Quotes

‘Monday Night Raw’ has been a huge part of my life, and when you think about it, I mean, life imitated art. That is how I met my husband.

The first MLB game I did was a Monday Night game, and no one really knew I was doing it. So walking into the clubhouse, I tried to introduce myself to people like, ‘Hey, I’m in the booth.’ And they were kind of confused, like, ‘You’re a female, I don’t understand.’

The meshing of the brands is great. I think it brings excitement. It brings anticipation of not knowing who’s going to be on ‘Monday Night Raw’ or on ‘Tuesday Night SmackDown’ so I think it’s really awesome.

Every Monday night, there was a scary movie on Spanish TV, so my parents used to send me to bed. I remember lying there, listening to the TV, and imagining the movie in my head. And so probably the scariest movies I ever saw in my life were the ones I imagined.

I spent my 20s making film after film, often in very adverse conditions. You’d fly back from somewhere – Beirut, the Falklands, South Africa – on Saturday, and you’d have 24 hours to cut your film, and it would go out on Monday night.

Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you’re capable of. It’s only two teams on that Monday night.

For sheer excitement, a weekend in New York is unbeatable. Arrive on Friday morning, leave on Monday night, and don’t worry about jet lag – just buzz for four days.

‘Monday Night Football’ has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.

Having been in the league with five different franchises, I know what the meaning of Monday Night Football is. It’s usually the best games and the greatest venue outside the playoffs.

Being able to swing in and host the ‘Today’ show when they call me, it certainly is a new experience that I have a lot of fun with, and it’s different than being in the middle of the ring in ‘Monday Night Raw.’

‘Antiques Roadshow’ is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, ‘Don’t bother me.’

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching ‘Monday Night Football’ with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

I’ve probably done 1,000 interviews about the ‘Monday Night Wars’ and how ‘Nitro’ was made.

‘Monday Night Football’ is a competitor to ‘Monday Night Raw.’

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

I think you can check out ‘Monday Night Raw’ and watch any ‘U.S. Open Challenge,’ and my actions speak for themselves.

Chess: It’s like alcohol. It’s a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

I can’t count how many times I’ve heard a wrestling fan say they don’t have enough time to watch ‘Raw.’ Maybe it’s less about not having the time to watch a three-hour show, but it’s more about the time and the patience. You can usually sum up your three-hour ‘Monday Night Raw’ in a five-minute conversation.

I don’t miss the limelight, not at all. I’m just more comfortable out of it. I don’t miss ‘Monday Night Football.’ I just don’t miss it. I’m lucky. When I stopped playing, I didn’t miss it. I feel blessed that it’s not been a problem. I have great memories. I feel really lucky.

There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.

It’s such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being on a movie set isn’t that different from being on ‘Monday Night RAW.’ It’s all stuff that I was prepared for.

Something that’s interesting with season two of ‘Total Divas,’ Fandango and I’s relationship has been on the surface level, as far as WWE programming with ‘Monday Night Raw,’ ‘Main Event,’ ‘Friday Night SmackDown.’ You see us on camera and that’s about it.

I think you should start the first 90 minutes of Raw with a Paul Heyman promo and the second 90 minutes of Raw with Brock Lesnar wiping out the entire roster. But then again, that’s my vision for Monday Night Raw.

Monday nights, it wasn’t like, ‘Mom, I want to watch Monday Night Raw.’ It was like, ‘Mom, put on Shawn Michaels.’

It was great fun being part of a TV series that I’d been a fan of for five years. I’ve been watching it every single Monday when with my wife. It was like a ritual – every Monday night on HBO Nordic, we would watch ‘Game of Thrones’ together.

At one time, watching football was an event. Monday Night Football was a big event.

I am performing on a nightly basis for WWE. I’m doing it in front of tens of thousands of people at the live events then millions on ‘Monday Night Raw.’

Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the ’80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. ’90s had the biggest run ever because of the Monday Night Wars.

When I was a kid, I just wanted to be outside. I didn’t grow up watching football. Didn’t ever watch a college game. I watched ‘Monday Night Football’ because my dad liked it, but we didn’t sit around on Sundays. I was outside, playing, training, whatever.

I love the fact that ‘Total Divas’ reaches a different demographic than the normal fan base or audience that typically watches ‘WWE Monday Night Raw’ or ‘SmackDown.’

My life used to be governed by that. I would know what day it was because I would be at ‘Monday Night Raw’ or ‘SmackDown’ on Tuesday.

With the Monday Night Wars, it was almost a pay-per-view every single Monday between the two factions because they were trying to throw everything but the kitchen sink to win the ratings war.

We didn’t roll credits after ‘Monday Night Raw.’ You know, it didn’t say, ‘Stone Cold Steve Austin played by Steve Austin,’ so all of a sudden people think that’s who and what you are 24/7, you know, 365 days a year.

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

Working with Brock Lesnar is a daily challenge because every Monday night that we’re on television, I feel compelled to deliver, at least from my end, the best performance I’ve ever put on.

For me, the pinnacle of everything was to be on ‘Monday Night Raw.’

You never know, I could show up on a ‘Monday Night Raw,’ I could come down to ‘SmackDown Live’ and snatch that title real quick. Never leave me out, you never know what’s creeping around the corner, if you know what I mean.

The best time in wrestling was with the nWo and the Monday Night War between WCW and WWE.

People always said during the Monday Night Wars that the only way we were able to compete was due to a large checkbook and deep pockets. That’s not very true at all. That is a false narrative designed to shape history. WWE had significant advantages over WCW and vice versa.

Watching all the football over the weekend – and having to wait until Monday night to play – gets you ready, gets you firing.

Monday night, there ain’t a better time to showcase your talent.

I’ve had so many cool moments on ‘Monday Night Raw.’

We got shorted when it comes to recognition for the ’80s war. Everybody talks about the ‘Monday Night Wars’ and the ‘Attitude Era,’ but it was neck and neck in the ’80s.

The fact that we are watching a live ‘Monday Night Raw’ every week is due to ‘Nitro.’

A lot of people tune in to ‘Monday Night Raw,’ and they can hear these boos or these mixed reactions, but they’re not there for our Friday live event show, our Saturday show, our Sunday show. I get to experience a lot of very supportive nights where everybody is on my side.