Cocky Quotations

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.

People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do that anytime. That's not being cocky. That's confidence.

I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'

I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I've ever met.

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there's a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I'm gonna do it good; I'm going to bring it over the top.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.

The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope fleeing America and finding Dorothy Lamour in some exotic location. Bob's character was cocky and cowardly; Bing's character was smooth and unruffled. They were great characters - lousy, lovable guys.

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.

My assistant told me there was a very insistent boy waiting to see me, who was a bit too cocky for his own good.

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

I feel like I'm a guy that can step up and make big plays. I can go out there and try to make a big play to help out the team, which is what it's about for me. I'm not a cocky or arrogant guy. I just want to help my team.

Give the Clippers credit. We're down 0-2, and we're frustrated. But the series is not over. They're a little cocky now, but we're going home.

He's a cocky sumbitch. That's what makes him such a great player.

We take each game as it comes. You don't want to overlook anybody, because it's real easy to get cocky and we don't want to do that. Every game that we play is important. We definitely have some tough games ahead of us. We just want to get ready for playoffs.

He was just real cocky out there. He acted like he was, you know, 'that guy,' like he was the man out there, but that's not really the situation.

I am impressed with the team's attitude. They are confident, not cocky or overconfident. We are really focused.

He's been unilateralist consistently. It's been kind of cocky rhetoric that he's used 'you're either with us or against us' and it has turned off a lot of people whose support we need.

He's a very quiet kid. He's a confident kid, and he's not cocky at all. He's respectful. He's very intense when he plays ... he just loves to play the game.

I think this team was confident going into week one. We're a team that is confident, but not a cocky football team. We work hard and we believe that we'll go out and play well on Sundays. It's starting to carry over now, so hopefully we'll keep it up.

I think I'm kind of cocky a little bit because I beat them last year and I'm 3-1 in the last four games against them.

I think he'll be fine, ... He's not a cocky kid. He's not a real meek kid. He's got a good head on his shoulders. He's a bright kid and he's got great athletic ability.

I think you're not as tough and cocky as when you're young and full of energy. I got humbled. I had to reorganize my life. I had to put my faith first, my family second and my golf third.

I thought we'd win when I said those things. I wasn't trying to be cocky or anything.

We were just trying to cast a great kid that kind of embodied the idea of the character. A young kid who kind of felt put upon, who wasn't too cocky and who was a little unsure of himself.

We just didn't show up to play today. We were a little cocky instead of confident.

That says a lot. In any sport, there's always good teams that don't handle (success) well. They get cocky or whatever. We've had a great year and we've won a lot, but I'm proud of how they have handled it. It's a pretty unique group.

We can't be cocky because we're going to a shootout. They've got to do their part.

We hope every year that this is going to be the one. I can't wait for the derby. It sounds cocky to say you expect to win, but I'm going with the idea that we have a pretty good horse.

We have so much confidence in each other right now. I don't think we're cocky by any means. I don't think we're over-confident.

Shouldn’t you be working instead of fraternizing with customers?” I choked. He smiled. “What are you doing Sunday night?” I snorted. By accident. “Are you asking me out?” “You’re getting cocky. I like that, Angel.” “I don’t care what you like. I’m not going out with you. Not on a date. Not alone.

I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.

I don't want people to get the impression that I got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.

I’m cocky in prediction, I’m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?

I'm cocky. It's different. Cocky is playful.

I'm confident, but not so confident that I'm cocky.

We want to be number one in the league, but in order to do that we still have to get better. We're still getting out-rebounded. We have other goals that we have to continue to get better. I think we're continually growing. We're never too cocky at any point. We're always looking to improve. And I think that's what makes it fun.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs.All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.

I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.

We don't want to get too cocky because we know we can get beat by anyone. We're just chilling, doing our normal thing. Going through practice and having our fun when we need.

I really don't believe in abortion. It's like killing a baby.

We should not be thinking about records or being the best but about doing the things we do best and not getting cocky or arrogant.

And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.

When you're world champions, you (can) be cocky or try to rub it in their face. It's nice. You have the ring, you have the trophy. I always said last year, 'We're not that good.' This year it's the same way.

But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.

[Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that he learns that it's not all about him, that there's a greater good. But what he thinks he was doing as a neurosurgeon, that was good because it benefitted people's health was really just a furtherment of his attempts to control death and control his own fate and other people's, but that's still driven by the ego.

We are a good team, but we are not a cocky team. We know going into every game that we need to play our best, and tonight the kids came out and did a good job of executing the game plan.

The recovery is not off the ground yet and there's a danger it could be nipped in the bud in its infancy. I think a lot of economists who have been very cocky over the last month, revising expectations up to ridiculous levels, are starting to backtrack.

Being anti-social, that's his personality. People that don't know him think he is cocky and anti-personal, but when you get to meet him he's a nice kid. When he is in battle mode he doesn't talk to you. He gets into that warrior mode, and I like that.

There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.

The one thing about this team is they go out every night and expect to win. You can't teach that. It doesn't matter who the opponent has been. They aren't cocky or look past anyone or anything like that, but they expect to win every time they go out on the floor.

I like the fact that they're cocky now from the age of four.

I love going on the road. When you go on the road and beat a good team that's a good feeling. You have to be a cocky bunch of guys because it's not easy. You have to always feel like it's you against the world. That's how you win. I told these guys that at the beginning of the year.

Swimming has changed drastically for Clay over the years. My hopes for Sarah are that she continues to have the spirit that she has. She's unbelievable. She's not one who is 'all about me.' She's very team-oriented and she's not cocky whatsoever. That makes me really proud.

Not to be cocky or anything but I knew the national record would go.

Not to sound cocky or anything, but I've always had confidence in my ability that I could play at this level. My dad kept telling me not to put any undue pressure on yourself.

It's ridiculous, isn't it? We're just making plays right now. We just do everything at will. I'm not trying to be arrogant or cocky when I say that. We just have that chip on our shoulder.

I think our kids are confident. They look forward to playing and they think they can win. That's not cocky at all. We're not predicting victory by any means, but I think we'll be confident. This will be the best team we play all year long by far, so we'll know our strengths and weaknesses.

I really feel good, but you can't get cocky in this game, ... You've just got to shoot the numbers.

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)

I don't really like the word 'cocky' and it's been used a lot with myself, ... But I'm not cocky. I'm confident. I feel like with a big name on the mound, as soon as I step into the batter's box, you're like, 'Oh great, I've got to face this guy,' or, 'Oh no, this guy throws hard.' If you think that, you're already out. Those guys on the mound are just as cocky or arrogant as anyone else. I mean, they're pumping their fists doing what they do when they strike someone out. But I think it's just magnetized by me because I'm just a rookie.

It's important to make sure (the gymnasts) don't get overconfident or too cocky or too arrogant. We've had teams in the past that would've responded to that (ranking), but these girls are not like that. They're very professional in their approach. It's been pretty much a textbook season in terms of us teaching and them responding.

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

Also Yoda 's scenes with the Emperor are so show stealing, especially when he Force flings Palpatine head over heels, ... I laughed aloud when Obi-Wan drops in to confront Grievous and his droids on Utapau . With a smirk, completely unbothered by being massively outnumbered he quips, 'Hello there.' Such cocky bravado from a Jedi , really!

You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.

I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.

Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.

There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.