Quotes and Sayings About Cocky
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You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?
-- Adam Levine -
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.
-- Alberto Salazar -
I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.
-- Aly Raisman -
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
-- Anne Rice -
Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
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.
-- Barry Zito -
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I was a little bit of a cocky kid.
-- Bill AckmanSource : "Billionaire Bill Ackman’s ill-fated bike ride: “his mind wrote a check that his body couldn't cash” by William D. Cohan, www.vanityfair.com. February 27, 2013.
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It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do
-- Bruce Lee -
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.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
-- Carly Rae JepsenSource : "Carly Rae Jepsen Calls Her New Man 'Really Great'" by Paul Chi, people.com. August 26, 2012.
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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.
-- Cat Zingano -
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.
-- Cindy Crawford -
I’m cocky in prediction, I’m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
-- Conor McGregor -
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I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.
-- Dorien Bryant -
Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
-- Eddie Vedder -
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
-- Eoin ColferSource : Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”
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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.
-- Ezra Miller -
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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.)
-- Glenn Gould -
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.
-- Hugh Prather -
I love you." - Avery "I know." - Cam "Cocky." - Avery "Confident. I love you sweetheart." - Cam
-- J. Lynn -
[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.
-- Jacqueline Cochran -
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I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment
-- JadakissSource : Song: New York Rap
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Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.
-- Jazmine Sullivan -
People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ‘Why would I ever get cocky? I’m not saving anybody’s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I’m making movies. It’s stupid.’
-- Jennifer Lawrence -
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Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.
-- Jeremy Roenick -
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.
-- Jimmy Connors