Jim Ross Quotes

'Monday Night Football' is a competitor to 'Monday Night Raw.'

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.

To look back and reflect on the career and sort of look at the seasons of it before I got to the WWF, working the territories and Japan and Texas, Puerto Rico, and then the WWF and WCW, then obviously the TNA years - it's been quite a journey, I'll say that.

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

All the territories or places I've wrestled are different. There are different styles. The WWE and TV style is also very different.

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

Owning content and original content has been our lifeblood - we've never been a suite of brands that's been reliant on a movie library or on rented series from other networks.

Vince McMahon - he's third generation, and his enormous empire, he ran it much like the territories. The buck stopped with him; he made the decisions. That's how a company should be run. Feast or famine, right or wrong, the WWE is driven off his decision making and always has been.

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

One time, a hedge fund gentleman in Connecticut brought in a bunch of professional wrestlers and myself at a very hefty price for his son's 11th birthday.

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.

It's amazing the footprint WWE has around the globe. When you look at the scope of the amount of live events they run, it's mind-boggling.

When you wrestle on television, you're always fighting for time and the enemy is you're never getting enough of it, you're looking, trying to get more.

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.'

When I was in NXT, I was still training every day. I was still in the ring every day and working every live event. And just because I wasn't on shows that were taped for NXT TV, I don't think people knew what skills I could do.

I always looked at 'All In' with the perspective that it's about the present and future of the industry and not really about cheap pops, even though I'm sure they'll be plenty of those on the show.

The way '205 Live' came about, there was a lot of trust put into our roster. Because if you look at it, the majority of our roster had not been in the developmental system and NXT. And the majority of us had not been on TV prior to that. So for WWE to trust us and literally hire us and throw us on live TV, it was very, 'Whoa!'

I love live TV, and there's no replacing or faking.

We just get comfortable in our routines, and that's how it worked before, but now you can see wrestling from around the world and all the promotions, and everyone has something online you could see. And many years ago, you could do these routines, and they weren't routines to the fans because they didn't see them as much.

We always had one eye on doing Saturday night TV even when we were back doing mornings. That's where we wanted to go to get a bigger audience.

When I hired the first group of cruiserweights - which consisted of Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho, and Eddie Guerrero - I sat them down in my office, and I was very clear to them. I said to them, almost verbatim, 'You need to be my human car crashes at 9 P.M.'

Yeah, it's also a huge jump for NXT to come off the WWE Network and come onto cable television. That's huge.

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.

WrestleMania is a major event and that's an understatement obviously, but it's a major event from the standpoint that many other companies use WrestleMania as a source of creating new revenue.

Wrestling is just a different beast. There is no off-season in WWE. It's week in and week out.