Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Namath

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

Ernie Els

I really feel good, but you can't get cocky in this game, ... You've just got to shoot the numbers.

Lamar Odom

You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.

Mark Twain

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Not to be cocky or anything but I knew the national record would go.

Suzanne Yoculan

It's important to make sure (the gymnasts) don't get overconfident or too cocky or too arrogant. We've had teams in the past that would've responded to that (ranking), but these girls are not like that. They're very professional in their approach. It's been pretty much a textbook season in terms of us teaching and them responding.

Carly Rae Jepsen

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

Mindy Kaling

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.

Ken Venturi

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.

Nicki Minaj

I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

Nicki Minaj

Yes, yes I am ill. I go in for the kill. Hoes is my sons, birth control, I am on the pill

Mary Lou Retton

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

Muhammad Ali

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.

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.

Lawrence Taylor

I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.

Puff Daddy

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

Justin Bieber

Those Beliebers who haven't met me yet are the special ones.

Justin Bieber

My fans are like my glasses. Without them I'd be blurry.

Justin Bieber

As hard as I've tried, I don't know how not to be adorable.

Justin Bieber

Interviewer: "What keeps you grounded?" Bieber: "Gravity." Interviewer: "What's up, Justin?" Bieber: "The sky, man."

Justin Bieber

Sunday comes after Saturday? Weird.

Justin Bieber

The day I was born, March 1, 1994, Celine Dion was solid at #1 with 'The Power of Love.' Not a bad start to your life.

Justin Bieber

Don't say I'm not talented. If you haven't noticed, I wasn't made. I was found.

Justin Bieber

My fans are really loud but they are great. I've never liked someone so much to go up and scream that loud.

Justin Bieber

It's kind of hard to balance school and work sometimes. But sometimes, like, if I'm going to the White House and I'm in there doing a tour and stuff, that's like school.

Justin Bieber

My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti.

Justin Bieber

Singers aren't supposed to have dairy before a show, but we all know I'm a rule breaker.

Justin Bieber

When you are following me on Twitter, you are literally following my life. I think that's pretty cool.

Patrick Ewing

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.

Paul McCartney

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.

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.