I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want.
When you’re young and arrogant and cocky and feel you’re invincible, you say a lot of mean things to a lot of people because you think you’re better, you don’t need to deal with people.
On the field, I’m very, very arrogant – cocky. I think that’s how you have to be as a DB. All the great DBs I know – the best DBs ever – had that. I bet you couldn’t rank the top 10 of DBs and say when he was playing he was very humble and didn’t talk smack. I think it would be impossible.
Every time I have the ball in my hands, which is every play, I feel I’m the best player on the team. That’s just my mentality. I’m not saying that in a cocky way, but everybody should have that mentality when they step on that field.
Tully was the first young, handsome, cocky, well-dressed bad guy. He was our version of Ric Flair before I knew who Ric Flair was. This was before cable TV or any of that, and Tully was our Ric Flair.
When I was 15, and I just stepped on the A-team, I believed in myself, but I wasn’t cocky in any way. I just wanted something so badly that I could tell people around me that were ten years older that they had to play and perform. I would still say that I had respect.
As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.
I can be a little cocky.
I believe I deserve everything that could maybe happen. And I don’t think that’s a cocky thing to say because I’ve worked really hard, and I’ve never bitten the hand that fed me, and I’ve always been really respectful.
I’ve never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.
I don’t want to seem cocky like I can’t lose.
When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.
I grew up where the repercussion of you having an opinion was being ‘cocky,’ or people would be mad at you. And I have finally learnt that it is better for them to be mad at you and disagree than you be so mad at yourself all of the time for not speaking up.
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.
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 was a little bit of a cocky kid.
I’m not talent. Not considered ‘talent’ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.
I’ve never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.
The fact is that everything I’ve done, no one else could do. I don’t want to be cocky or arrogant or think I’m the best, but what I’ve tried to do all those years was to show I was different from the others. And that’s not my opinion, but everyone’s.
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.
I match up with the best guys in the world. I’m not being cocky; it’s just always how I felt. But I got into trouble as soon as I got into the NBA, and it left a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths.
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.
There’s nothing I hate more than an over-cocky person. I have friends that’ll be all cocky and then go out and get their butt whooped. They’re the worst.
I can’t stand cocky, rude people.
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.
On the field, I’m very, very arrogant – cocky. I think that’s how you have to be as a DB. All the great DBs I know – the best DBs ever – had that. I bet you couldn’t rank the top 10 of DBs and say when he was playing he was very humble and didn’t talk smack. I think it would be impossible.
New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I’d come in all cocky, like, ‘I’m gonna bring this town to its knees!’ After about a month, I was like, ‘I wanna go home.’
If I’m too cocky or too arrogant, it’s like, ‘Ugh.’ But if you’re too on the other side, you take away some of those other emotional aspects, and I just kinda like to have a balance.
It’s wonderful to win, but don’t get cocky about it!
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!
A lot of people think I’m cocky or arrogant but I’m really just chill and cool and humble.
Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play. Shaggy is flamboyant; he’s cocky. And I can’t live that twenty-four hours a day – hell, no.
New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I’d come in all cocky, like, ‘I’m gonna bring this town to its knees!’ After about a month, I was like, ‘I wanna go home.’
I’m not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I’m one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.
I believe I deserve everything that could maybe happen. And I don’t think that’s a cocky thing to say because I’ve worked really hard, and I’ve never bitten the hand that fed me, and I’ve always been really respectful.
When I dive for a ball I’m not diving because it looks spectacular – I’m trying win the point. When I jump it’s because it’s easy for me to jump. I’m not being cocky but because I can jump higher than other people it looks more spectacular. Other players smash but I go higher so it looks different.
I had a great job, living a great lifestyle… and just started doing the wrong things, getting a little bit cocky.
I was a cocky kid.
Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.
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 know this sounds arrogant or cocky or like I’m selling myself, but even on the court now, I don’t think anybody can stop me. I just have that much confidence.
I don’t have an overabundance of cocky attitude, because I’m collaborative.
It’s wonderful to win, but don’t get cocky about it!
I don’t mean to sound cocky, but I just wear what I like and don’t try to focus too much on trends.
I’m not cocky, I’m humble, but I think I can be really special, one of the top players in the league.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
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?
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.
It’s an amazing thing to say, ‘I’m beautiful,’ without feeling like you’re cocky.
Boxing is so easy for me, sadly. I don’t mean to be cocky. The promoters don’t like that I walk through other girls but it’s not my fault that I’m so good.
I think I had a lot of impact on every player. Maybe it sounds cocky, but if I don’t feel I have an impact or a big impact, I wouldn’t be able to be excited about my work every day.
Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky – this is just what I see.
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 don’t want to be cocky, but I want to win a championship and feel that with my team, I have the ability.
Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky – this is just what I see.
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.
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