Quotes About Cocky

#1. A halo? Won't that get in the way of your horns?" She extended her index fingers on either side of her head.
"I'll just wear my halo at a cocky angle over one horn. It'll be sexier that way. You won't know what hit you.

Olivia Cunning

#2. 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?

Dale Carnegie

#3. 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.

Peter Berg

#4. I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.

David Chang

#5. Where did you sleep?"
His mouth curled in a cocky grin at this question. "Where do you think?"
...
He turned his attention back to the wood and answered his own question, sounding a little bored all of a sudden. "On the couch.

Sophie Jordan

#6. Well, you have the luxury of looking beautiful regardless of what you wear."

"That is not true; you definitely pull off that 'I don't give a crap how I look but I look flawless' look."

He gives me a cocky smirk and leans back in his chair. "I do, don't I?

Anna Todd

#7. 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?

Rickey Henderson

#8. 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.

Patrick Ewing

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. At once, it's clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don't have the arrogance. Apparently, I'm too "vulnerable" for ferocity. I'm not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

Suzanne Collins

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

Simon Cowell

#14. 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.

Mary Ann Mobley

#15. 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.

Mary Kay Blakely

#16. He runs his hand over his face, and suddenly the cocky joker is gone, and I can see all of his shadows.

Tarryn Fisher

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

Carly Rae Jepsen

#18. Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

Criss Jami

#19. I couldn't help myself. This woman whom I'd seen handle an entire boardroom full of cocky sons of bitches without batting an eye was crazy adorable. She was tough as nails and hotter than sin. And Christ, she was hilarious. I wanted more of her. A lot fucking more.

Max Monroe

#20. 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.

Muhammad Ali

#21. Not saying I rate myself lots now, but I rate myself more because I've been exercising. I'd say a six now. Just above average. There are a lot of good-looking people out there, you see, so more than six is getting a bit cocky.

Peter Andre

#22. Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way.

Anthony Liccione

#23. 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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#24. Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens.

Kano Jigoro

#25. Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day

Sylvia Day

#26. I was a cocky kid.

Cindy Morgan

#27. She wasn't going there again. Ever. Nope, she needed transparency from a man. And Parker, for all his bad-boy, cowboy 'tude and cocky swagger, wasn't anything close to transparent. At all. And that made him downright dangerous to her.

Jill Shalvis

#28. If he is a half-decent human being, he will find himself the object of crushes. If he is a cocky bastard, even more so.

Piper Kerman

#29. I like seeing sexy chicks whoop the cocky off guys like Turner.

C.M. Stunich

#30. You can be a cocky asshole to me. I deal with little pricks like you all of the time. But you leave Jenn the hell alone or the next time you take a piss, it will be through a fucking tube. Do we understand each other?

Teresa Mummert

#31. Is it broken? Seriously. I mean my vagina. Not the vibrator. The vibrator definitely had some kicking power left in it. I think that cocky, sexy, asshole broke it.

Victoria Ashley

#32. 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.

Richard Dreyfuss

#33. Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat.

Kano Jigoro

#34. *Cheating. Of any sort. And before you get all cocky and think you can easily handle this one, let me tell you what "cheating" means in my dictionary. Anything you wouldn't do if my daughter, or myself, were watching is cheating. Yeah - shit just got real. I'll

S.E. Hall

#35. Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain

#36. He broke out in a wide, cocky grin. "Have I rendered you speechless?"
I looked again and nodded dumbly. "Uh, huh.

Ashlan Thomas

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

Adrian Beltre

#38. I'm a real stubborn person. I'm still humble, not too cocky, but I'm big headed. I know what I wanna do and I know how I wanna do it and I know what needs to be done.

Schoolboy Q

#39. He's more than just a good-looking guy and you know it. But, I thought, he doesn't have flashlight eyes or a cocky-bastard smile that can boil water or a voice from the heavens and most of all he says things like, It's only rock 'n' roll.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#40. You make me feel cocky. It's the way you react to me that makes me feel like a fucking god. How can you not see that?

Christina Lauren

#41. He sat back with a satisfied grin. "I just wanted you to admit it." He was especially cute when he got cocky, and he knew it.

Laurelin Paige

#42. Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Eoin Colfer

#43. 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

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

Aly Raisman

#45. One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."

Scott Raab

#46. Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#47. I don't trust good fortune that comes so easily. There is always a price to be paid, Frannie. Always." He gave her a cocky grin. "I want to know the price before I have to pay it.

Lorraine Heath

#48. 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

#49. 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.

Lisa Marie Presley

#50. I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

Ciara

#51. I learned how to play the music working with my dad. Because in the beginning I was super excited, I had this gig, I was a kid, I got cocky and didn't want to take lessons.

Eric Hernandez

#52. Maybe I am a little cocky. Maybe it's something I need to work on.

Keith Michael

#53. They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going.

Ken Kesey

#54. Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

Tad Williams

#55. He's cocky but wounded, charming but lonely, with the sureness of a wealthy man and the desperation of a pauper. I can't figure him out, but one thing is certain. Daren is not as tough or undamaged as he lets on.

Chelsea Fine

#56. 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.

Mitch Hedberg

#57. There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance of a man who broke the rules with impunity. A man who feared nothing. A very, very dangerous man.

Sarah Castille

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

Adam Levine

#59. [Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck
'
[Opal] 'Was?'
[J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

Maria V. Snyder

#60. 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.

Mindy Kaling

#61. Ryan has this blank, way too innocent expression. "Don't worry, Mr. Risk. I'd love to help Elisabeth."
He turns to me and smiles. This smile isn't genuine or heartwarming, but cocky as hell.
Bring it, jock boy. Your best won't be good enough.

Katie McGarry

#62. My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

Sara Maitland

#63. [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

#64. Kellan looked back at me, cocky amusement infused into his lopsided grin. "I'm glad you don't squeal when I look at you." He leaned in, his arm brushing mine. "I like having to earn it," he whispered.

S.C. Stephens

#65. Pretty damned cocky of you to assume I'd say yes." His gaze was steady, but I could see the humor lurking in his eyes and around the corners of his mouth.
"I was SWAT for a lot of years, sweetheart. Cocky is my middle name.

Liliana Hart

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

Shia Labeouf

#67. When you get too excited about the possibilities, you don't stop to consider the consequences. Just when you get too cocky, life has a way of putting you in your place.

Katie Kacvinsky

#68. Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

Ronda Rousey

#69. Cocky Hunter or dirty-talking Jake? Lucky for you, you don't have to choose!

Scarlett Avery

#70. 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.

Paul McCartney

#71. 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.

Mark W. Clark

#72. Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Ann Landers

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

Conor McGregor

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

Sean Combs

#75. That cocky ass piece of shit is stronger than steel. After a nuclear blast, there'd be cockroaches, and there'd be Turner motherfucking Campbell.

C.M. Stunich

#76. Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

Jeremy Roenick

#77. Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbehave or he'd personally kill us all.
He didn't actually say those words, but that was the subtext.

Maureen Johnson

#78. Well, so you don't get too cocky, I myself often complete the TV Guide crossword puzzle." He puffed out his chest. "In pen.

Shelly Laurenston

#79. And Marcus is what Cole needs? A cocky, arrogant asshole?" he asked, then paused. "Wait, I see your point." Paolo snorted and Styx smiled. "Figured you would.

S.E. Jakes

#80. 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.

Willie McCovey

#81. I've always been jealous of people who can tell stories really well in a room with a bunch of people. I've never been good at it because I'm not cocky enough to be like, "Okay, everyone, listen right now to this. I'm going to blow your minds with this joke."

Brendan Benson

#82. Speaking of - why the heck am I looking at his figure? My eyes snap up. Sure enough, he's looking, cocky little grin in place like he's God's gift to the female eye and he caught me praising the Lord.

Nyrae Dawn

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

Anne Rice

#84. I know for a fact you get all hot and bothered for cocky Texans with big trucks."
"Is that what I like to be big?"
"You know it, darlin'." He dipped his head lower wanting - needing - to touch her.
"You never know. I might just surprise you.

Avery Flynn

#85. When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

Amy Chua

#86. 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.'

Laura Mvula

#87. I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

Jonas Armstrong

#88. Bryce smiled, all cocky fucking grin, leaned forward and kissed him. "Cocksucking 101 is about to start." ***

Riley Hart

#89. I swallowed and seemed to lose my ability to speak as I took in the Adonis standing before me. I wanted to smack that cocky smile right off his face, though - his

Penelope Ward

#90. Rowan was cocky, impatient, and downright infuriating. He winked and my stomach felt like a hundred dragonflies were doing summersaults. Nope, I refuse to be attracted to him.

Stacey O'Neale

#91. Do you have any skills?" He gave her a cocky grin. "I'm particularly skilled at pissing off everyone around me. Quite exceptional at it, point of fact. Been known to do so by merely entering a room." She

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#92. Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.

Criss Jami

#93. You are just as annoyingly cocky as you were nine years ago."
"Yes," Kyle's gaze fell to her lips. "And we both know how that turned out.

Julie James

#94. I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

Mike Birbiglia

#95. 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.

Buddy Hackett

#96. God, he's such a cocky, arrogant bastard at times.
And I totally fancy him.
No I don't.
Yes, I do.
No. I. Don't.
Ah fuck.

Samantha Towle

#97. No matter how angry she was at him, she didn't want to see that cocky bastard eliminated from the face of the earth.

Elle Kennedy

#98. The more time he spent with him, the more complex his feelings became. He was slowly peeling away the layers of the cocky man he'd met in the bar, and every time he discovered something new, he found himself getting more and more involved.

Ella Frank

#99. Be confident and not cocky.

Ashley Roberts

#100. He was a cocky devil. Lisbeth liked cocky devils, just as she detested pompous jerks. There was only a subtle difference.

Stieg Larsson