Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

To make a name for myself, I feel it's important to do that before I go anywhere else. Impact have given me the platform and the exposure to do that.

As a performer, you're constantly re-branding.

I think that every boxer should understand he's on the pedestal for a short span. It's best that you use boxing and don't let boxing use you. Use boxing to sell, because people are selling you through your boxing career, so you have to learn to sell yourself, and you'll never starve.

I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

When you build your own brand, people will still return your phone calls regardless of the call letters or where you actually work, because they now know you and they trust you in what you have to say and what you're doing. That, to me, is the most important aspect when it comes to building your brand.

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

If you wish in this world to advance/Your merits you're bound to enhance;/You must stir it and stump it, /And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

A word of advice: your interview is about you. It's not about the school you went to, what you majored in, what your GPA was, or who your parents happen to be or know. Most of that stuff is right on your resume, and it might even have gotten you into the room, but it won't get you much farther.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I am sure my association with a big brand like PUMA is really going to help me in the long run.

I think timing is everything. I have no regrets in my career. I've been able to make a name for myself and build my own brand.

Opportunities came because WWE built my name, and I've made the most of it.

When I was playing basketball, players weren't thinking about themselves as being a brand.

The most important thing is to recognize how important it is to market yourself and make connections.

I have always tried to market myself.

My body of work speaks for itself.

I want to build a brand for myself and get booked for being me, while others will get booked for being them.

My ambition is to work in quality projects and make a name for myself.