Top 115 Cocky Quotes

I am not cocky or real showboatish.

I’ve been saying it before the lottery, before the Phoenix Suns even had the No. 1 pick. I’ve just been talking it into the existence. I’m not saying I’m the best player in the draft and trying to be cocky like that, but I was just saying I’m going to be the No. 1 pick, regardless.

I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

Sometimes I was a little bit – not cocky, but not so nice, you know?

I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You’d be like, ‘My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.’ I feel like I would clean up with patients. That’s kind of a cocky thing to say.

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

Some people say I’m arrogant or cocky but I’m a down to earth, decent guy.

I read all the time that people think I’m arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, ‘That image doesn’t fit you.’

I’m sure I was a cocky git.

I did something that I told people around me never to do, which was, pay a psychiatrist. Why pay a psychiatrist when you can just come to me? I can help you with something going on in your life; even if I know nothing about you, I can possibly help you. That’s just me being cocky like I am.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‘talent’ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Honestly, the way I make music, you know – it’s like, I don’t want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn’t have an expiration date.

Success hasn’t changed me at all. I’m still the same cocky, arrogant guy I’ve always been. The only difference now is that I’m busy all the time.

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.

I don’t want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

A lot of fighters are cocky.

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

Am I cocky or conceited? I’m definitely cocky. But at the root is confidence and humility.

I don’t feel like there has ever really been anyone like me, and I’m starting to realize that. Not in a cocky way, but in a very humbling way.

Before, when I was 19-0, I was undefeated and I was 23, 24 years old. Yeah, I was cocky, I had a little bit of ego. I had to get humbled.

I know how to make myself very, very cocky and annoying. That’s my character. I enjoy doing it. People hate it. But I don’t mind it when people hate it.

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.

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 hope I don’t come off as being cocky.

I don’t have an overabundance of cocky attitude, because I’m collaborative.

My father was a cocky, long-haired musician, a songwriter.

It might come off as cocky, but I’ve been through a lot in my life.

I’m not cocky. I’m not arrogant. I know my value.

I remember, when I was doing ‘Nicholas Nickleby’, James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, ‘My father would like to see you after the show.’ It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, ‘Who the hell is he to summon me?’

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 don’t want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

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 believe in myself and maybe people take that as cocky and flash but in this game you have to believe in yourself or you won’t get anywhere.

I don’t really want to be cocky when I say this, but I really feel I can be one of the best rim protectors in the league, you know, as a rookie.

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.

When you’re young, you’re cocky.

In baseball I was pretty cocky.

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.

I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You’d be like, ‘My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.’ I feel like I would clean up with patients. That’s kind of a cocky thing to say.

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.

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 don’t want to be one of those kids who gets famous and then changes and becomes cocky. That’s why it’s so important to me to try and take a photo with every girl who comes to see me.

When you Google me, you’ll find a lot of people don’t like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I’m cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there’s 100 percent support for that.

‘New Mutants’ is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it… That’s why I was so cocky and confident: because I was like, ‘I just turned around this broken down comic book with products of my imagination.’

I don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

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.

I don’t think I’m over-the-top cocky, I’m just proud of where I came from.

I have three other siblings, so it’s all very equal – even when I get a little cocky, which I usually do. My brother keeps me in a headlock. He says that I’m not a celebrity in this house. I think I’m really chilled out and grounded.

The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they’re very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.

Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, ‘Reggie has a massive ego; he’s narcissistic, he’s cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,’ because that’s what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn’t let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.

I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and cocky, and I thought: ‘Hey, if I like it, everyone’s gonna like it.’ Well, it came to fruition, and I chose a character that was not a far departure from myself at all.

I have two brothers, and we used to always laugh at oblivious people. People who are so cocky and full of themselves that they just don’t realize how stupid they are. And those kind of idiots really make me laugh.

I don’t commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I’m not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!

Without sounding cocky, Freddie Mercury does remind me of me.

I was definitely not the cocky kid. I was probably on the other end of the spectrum – I was quiet. I remember a time when there was a skills competition, and I think I was five, and I was so nervous to even compete that I chose not to do the skating part.

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.

I’m really cocky. Or – I’ve been thinking about this word a lot – I’m ‘mischievous,’ and I want to make light of things and push the boundaries.