Beat the Blues: Inspiring Monday Night Quotes

“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.” – Don Meredith

“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.” – Juan Antonio Bayona

“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.” – Stone Cold Steve Austin

“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.” – Roman Reigns

“Monday night, there ain’t a better time to showcase your talent.” – Ed Reed

“In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he’d spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they’d experienced together.” – Laura Moser

“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.'” – John Cena

“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.” – Eric Bischoff

“I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.” – Florence Pugh

“Well ‘Monday Night Football,’ I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it’s a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it’s a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you’re a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It’s different than when you play at noon.” – Bud Grant

“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.” – Tim Pigott-Smith

“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.” – John Morrison

“‘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.'” – Lara Spencer

“There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.” – Pete Rozelle

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

“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.” – Jerry Rice

“I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and ‘Monday Night Football.’ Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.” – Jordin Sparks

“What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we’d have what you’d call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.” – Olympia Snowe

“As much as I enjoy TV, I’ve always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific – you’re talking all the time.” – Marv Albert

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

“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.” – Pilou Asbaek

“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.” – Jon Gruden

“‘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.” – Stephanie McMahon

“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.” – CM Punk

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

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“When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn’t my greatest time in the business… but they kept bringing me back.” – Diamond Dallas Page

“Monday nights, it wasn’t like, ‘Mom, I want to watch Monday Night Raw.’ It was like, ‘Mom, put on Shawn Michaels.'” – Enzo Amore

“I’ve had so many cool moments on ‘Monday Night Raw.’ ” – The Miz

“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.” – Charles Krauthammer

“I am and always have been a football guy. My relationship with ‘Monday Night Football’ lasted 21 years, which is unprecedented for any theme song to be on the air that long.” – Hank Williams Jr.

“I was on ‘Monday Night Raw’ – and nobody realizes this – every time you go from ‘Raw’ to ‘SmackDown’ or ‘SmackDown’ to ‘Raw,’ it shakes up your career; it shakes up your life.” – The Miz

“The fact that we are watching a live ‘Monday Night Raw’ every week is due to ‘Nitro.'” – Eric Bischoff

“When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn’t my greatest time in the business… but they kept bringing me back.” – Diamond Dallas Page

“Monday nights, it wasn’t like, ‘Mom, I want to watch Monday Night Raw.’ It was like, ‘Mom, put on Shawn Michaels.'” – Enzo Amore

“I’ve had so many cool moments on ‘Monday Night Raw.'” – The Miz

“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.” – Charles Krauthammer

“I am and always have been a football guy. My relationship with ‘Monday Night Football’ lasted 21 years, which is unprecedented for any theme song to be on the air that long.” – Hank Williams Jr.

“I was on ‘Monday Night Raw’ – and nobody realizes this – every time you go from ‘Raw’ to ‘SmackDown’ or ‘SmackDown’ to ‘Raw,’ it shakes up your career; it shakes up your life.” – The Miz

“The fact that we are watching a live ‘Monday Night Raw’ every week is due to ‘Nitro.'” – Eric Bischoff

“When it comes to the live events, you get to see great Diva matches you don’t see on ‘Monday Night Raw.'” – Eve Torres

“It’s almost like the Monday Night Wars for me all over again. That’s the kind of feeling I get with Reality of Wrestling.” – Booker T

“‘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.” – Bud Grant

“It’s really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it’s really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.” – T. J. Perkins

“I’m a huge WWE fan, ‘Monday Night RAW’ especially.” – Summer Rae

“I watch football all the time. I enjoy getting home on Monday nights and watch ‘Monday Night Football,’ and ‘Sunday Night Football’ when we get home early enough on Sunday nights.” – Kyle Busch

“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.” – Stone Cold Steve Austin

“I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.” – Lisa Guerrero

“Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him.” – John Turturro

“As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.” – Nick Ferguson

“Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn’t work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.” – Al Michaels

“‘Monday Night Football’ is a competitor to ‘Monday Night Raw.'” – Stephanie McMahon

“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.” – Paul Greengrass

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

“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.” – Dean Ambrose

“The thing is that, not only do you learn so much about being in front of a camera and stuff being on ‘Monday Night RAW,’ but at the same time, I’m not really acting on ‘Monday Night RAW.'” – Dean Ambrose

“When you think about the impact and the legacy that ‘Monday Night Raw’ has had on the media, entertainment, and sports worlds, it’s significant.” – Stephanie McMahon

“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.” – Paul Heyman

“I think the fact that Brock Lesnar is not on the road 52 weeks a year, is not on ‘Monday Night Raw’ every episode, is not performing 300 matches per year… I think that dictates to the public, ‘Brock Lesnar is special.’ That an appearance by Brock Lesnar in an of itself is newsworthy.” – Paul Heyman

“NXT is its own kind of animal, and you’re never quite sure how much of that transfers over into WWE and into Monday Night Raw.” – Finn Balor

“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.” – Diamond Dallas Page

“The best time in wrestling was with the nWo and the Monday Night War between WCW and WWE.” – Scott Steiner

“The last thing I want to come home to on Monday night after work is a mess.” – Molly Qerim

“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.” – Lane Kiffin

“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.” – Summer Rae

“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.'” – Elias

“At one time, watching football was an event. Monday Night Football was a big event.” – Troy Aikman

“For me, the pinnacle of everything was to be on ‘Monday Night Raw.'” – Summer Rae

“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.” – Eva Marie

“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.'” – Jessica Mendoza

“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.” – Mandy Rose

“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.” – Carson Palmer

“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.'” – Eva Marie

“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.” – Jim Cornette

“I like to call my wines ‘anytime wines.’ You just want to sit and open up a bottle and watch ‘The Blacklist’ on a Monday night? Open it up, and it’s very easy. It’s very approachable.” – Charles Woodson

“Obviously, ESPN, that Monday Night gig is a big deal. You don’t just easily dismiss that.” – Greg Olsen.

“I grew up watching ‘Monday Night Football’ games, just dreamed about being out there.” – Justin Herbert

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Benefits of Monday Night Quotes:

• Q: How can quotes benefit me on Monday night?
  • A: Monday night quotes can offer much-needed motivation as you transition from the weekend to the workweek. They can help you:
    • Ease anxieties about the week ahead.
    • Refocus your energy and set intentions for a productive week.
    • Gain a sense of purpose and direction for the upcoming days.
    • Find inspiration to tackle challenges and reach your goals.
• Q: What specific benefits do quotes offer in terms of motivation and courage?
  • A: Motivational quotes can:
    • Ignite your drive to pursue your goals by reminding you of what’s possible.
    • Rekindle your passion for your work or studies.
    • Provide a sense of empowerment by highlighting stories of perseverance.
  • A: Courageous quotes can:
    • Inspire you to overcome challenges with bravery and resilience.
    • Shift your perspective and see difficulties as opportunities for growth.
    • Remind you of your inner strength and ability to handle whatever comes your way.

Sharing Monday Night Quotes:

• Q: How can I effectively share Monday night quotes with others?
  • A: Here are some tips for impactful sharing:
    • Choose a quote that resonates with you and your audience.
    • Find a visually appealing way to present the quote, like using an image or graphic design app.
    • Add a personal touch by sharing why the quote resonates with you or how it applies to the week ahead.
    • Use relevant hashtags on social media platforms to reach a wider audience.
    • Tag friends or colleagues who might also benefit from the quote.
• Q: How can sharing quotes inspire others?
  • A: By sharing quotes, you can:
    • Spread positivity and create a sense of community.
    • Spark conversations about goals, challenges, and overcoming obstacles.
    • Motivate others to start their week with a positive mindset.
    • Offer a sense of support and encouragement to those who might be feeling overwhelmed.

Finding the Perfect Monday Night Quote:

• Q: Where can I find inspirational quotes for Monday nights?
  • A: There are many resources available:
    • Online quote websites and quote databases.
    • Motivational books and articles.
    • Social media pages dedicated to inspirational quotes.
    • Biographies and autobiographies of successful people.
    • Poetry collections and literary works.
• Q: What should I look for when selecting a Monday night quote?
  • A: Choose a quote that:
    • Speaks to your current situation or goals for the week.
    • Evokes strong emotions and resonates with you.
    • Uses clear and concise language that is easy to understand.
    • Offers a message of hope, encouragement, or inspiration.

Remember: Monday nights can be a powerful time for reflection and setting intentions for the week ahead. By incorporating inspirational quotes into your routine, you can tap into their power to motivate, encourage, and inspire yourself and others.