Zach Anner Quotes

I've always kind of been the guy next door who just happens to fight for a living. I tried to figure out what was special and marketable about me early on in my career and I realized that there's absolutely nothing special about me, so I wanted that.

I'm not trying to clean my image to make anyone happy.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

I'm not just an athlete doing something for likes on social media.

After working over 8 years in radio to build my brand, I would never want to misrepresent myself.

I feel like my story just proves how important not only social media is, but how important it is to be your authentic self. Because when you're really truly your authentic self, the right people will find you. And when they find you, it will be for exactly who you are.

People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because 'that's where you are but you don't act that way, so people undervalue you.' But that's not me.

I always knew that content was the best way to sell things, but my thing was, why sell other people's stuff if I have a point of view?

I let my life, and success, speak for itself.

I'm not those kind of persons that's afraid to be on radio or TV, you know? I'm always the same.

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

Going out there and promoting myself socially doesn't really intrigue me. I'd much rather have my work do it for me.

I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect.

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.

Everyone needs some trial and error figuring out how it's gonna work for them. I could have gotten that out of the way a little sooner but I think you're totally right, the way I kind of think about things and the way I wanted to put myself out there doesn't fit the traditional side of things. I needed things like podcasts and YouTube and things that allow you to get it out there yourself and stand in the flames.

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

I don't talk. I just let what I do talk for myself.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or love or gratitude, you're diminishing your legitimacy and importance in this world.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.