Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buddy Hackett

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that he learns that it's not all about him, that there's a greater good. But what he thinks he was doing as a neurosurgeon, that was good because it benefitted people's health was really just a furtherment of his attempts to control death and control his own fate and other people's, but that's still driven by the ego.

Ozzie Guillen

When you're world champions, you (can) be cocky or try to rub it in their face. It's nice. You have the ring, you have the trophy. I always said last year, 'We're not that good.' This year it's the same way.

ASAP Rocky

I don't want people to get the impression that I got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.

Eddie Vedder

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

Buddy Hackett

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.

We want to be number one in the league, but in order to do that we still have to get better. We're still getting out-rebounded. We have other goals that we have to continue to get better. I think we're continually growing. We're never too cocky at any point. We're always looking to improve. And I think that's what makes it fun.

Ann Landers

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Hannibal Buress

I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.

Adrian Beltre

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

Adam Levine

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

Adam Levine

You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?

Alberto Salazar

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 am impressed with the team's attitude. They are confident, not cocky or overconfident. We are really focused.

Aly Raisman

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

Dorien Bryant

I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.

David Maraniss

And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.

Lawrence Taylor

He's a cocky sumbitch. That's what makes him such a great player.

Jerry Pate

I think you're not as tough and cocky as when you're young and full of energy. I got humbled. I had to reorganize my life. I had to put my faith first, my family second and my golf third.

He's a very quiet kid. He's a confident kid, and he's not cocky at all. He's respectful. He's very intense when he plays ... he just loves to play the game.

Joe Namath

I thought we'd win when I said those things. I wasn't trying to be cocky or anything.

Give the Clippers credit. We're down 0-2, and we're frustrated. But the series is not over. They're a little cocky now, but we're going home.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Shouldn’t you be working instead of fraternizing with customers?” I choked. He smiled. “What are you doing Sunday night?” I snorted. By accident. “Are you asking me out?” “You’re getting cocky. I like that, Angel.” “I don’t care what you like. I’m not going out with you. Not on a date. Not alone.

We just didn't show up to play today. We were a little cocky instead of confident.

We have so much confidence in each other right now. I don't think we're cocky by any means. I don't think we're over-confident.

Chris Givens

That says a lot. In any sport, there's always good teams that don't handle (success) well. They get cocky or whatever. We've had a great year and we've won a lot, but I'm proud of how they have handled it. It's a pretty unique group.

We can't be cocky because we're going to a shootout. They've got to do their part.

We hope every year that this is going to be the one. I can't wait for the derby. It sounds cocky to say you expect to win, but I'm going with the idea that we have a pretty good horse.

John Gallagher, Jr.

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.

George Clooney

Look, it's very easy to sit here right now with some films in the bank that I like and think I have a shot and feel pretty cocky. But, you know, three years from now, I could very easily be saying, 'Paper or plastic?'

Ludacris

I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.

Jennifer Lawrence

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

Jacqueline Cochran

[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.