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People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
Oct 2, 2025
It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.
I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.
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.
I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.
Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.
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.
Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.
I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment
I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.
So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.
I'm more than just an option.
I'm the one twice over I'm the new eleven
I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
Last name 'Ever', first name 'Greatest'
Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat.
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.
Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.
The day I was born, March 1, 1994, Celine Dion was solid at #1 with 'The Power of Love.' Not a bad start to your life.
The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.
I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
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.
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.
Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.
I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Be confident and not cocky.
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 like to be confident, absolutely not cocky, and I like to have that healthy fear of my opponents. It keeps me on my toes.
But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.
I'm a star, no spangled banner
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.
I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.
When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear.
I have dumped a girl over the phone. It's terrible, isn't it? We got into an argument during a phone call, so I basically said, 'I don't wanna be with you anymore,' and she cried. I saw her after that and it was a bit awkward.
I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.
There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to the effect of: 'He's confident without being cocky. He has no idea that he could be considered attractive, because he saw All The President's Men when he was thirteen and never looked up.' It was just a great little gem of a screen direction, and I felt immediately from just that, that I had a good idea of how to play this guy.
There he is, a woman's living, breathing fantasy, doing his slow, cocky turn, spiky black hair, darkly tanned chest, dimpled smile-killer smile-all in the package of Remington Tate. He's perfection itself, and a new surge of hormones sweeps through me as I do what the rest of the crowd does and take in his visual, so blatantly on display in those low riding boxing shorts and so strikingly sexy, he becomes the center of my attention. The center. Of my. World.
Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'
Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.
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?
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?
I don't know how to fix a car. If the car breaks down, and the gas tank does not say "E", I'm screwed. But if the gas tank says "E", I get all cocky - "I've got this one, don't worry." So I get out the toolbox AKA wallet.
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.