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“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.”

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Author:Willie McCovey

“There's downtime in music, which obviously is necessary or else you'd lose your mind in other ways, but if we're on tour and there's electricity from the audience, if you're getting a good response, then that's the positive side of the mojo where I could feel cocky and just know I'm doing good and then there's a time all of a sudden when you're alone and you just don't know if people will like it.”

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Author:Kurt Vile

“Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.”

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Author:Jazmine Sullivan

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

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Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.”

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Author:Rickey Henderson

“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.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“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.”

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Author:Schoolboy Q

“I don't know how to fix a car. If the car breaks down, and the gas tank does not say "E", I'm screwed. But if the gas tank says "E", I get all cocky - "I've got this one, don't worry." So I get out the toolbox AKA wallet.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“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.”

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Author:Eric Hernandez

“But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.”

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Author:Chelsea Handler

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

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Author:Mike Birbiglia

“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.”

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Author:Peter Andre

“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.”

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Author:Michael Johnson

“I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

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Author:Ezra Miller

“Once you get cocky that's when you start to, A, turn into an asshole to everybody and, B, make mistakes because you stop listening to people or they stop telling you because you're a cocky asshole. So I'm going to try and eat my humble pie every morning for breakfast and just hope that it turns out OK.”

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Author:Timothy Miller

“My first fight in Hamilton was against Rocky Thompson. Everybody was saying, 'Be careful, he can punch with both hands.' I'm saying, 'Look how skinny he is.' I was cocky. But he beat me. After that fight I said to myself, man, this is going to be a tough job.”

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Author:Georges Laraque

“I'm not cocky. But I'm very confident.”

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Author:Frank Thomas

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

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Author:Adrian Beltre

“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.”

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Author:Lamar Odom

“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."”

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Author:Brendan Benson

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

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Author:ASAP Rocky

“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?'”

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Author:George Clooney

“When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.”

“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.”

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Author:Mr. T

“I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.”

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Author:Zach Condon

“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.”

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Author:Russell Peters

“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.”

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Author:David Maraniss

“I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.”

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Author:Cody Johnson

“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.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“[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.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“When you're playing for 30 people and you're jumping around stage, screaming, getting in peoples faces and acting cocky you're kind of poking fun at yourself.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“That's why Serena Williams is such a hero for me, because she's got such incredible swagger, and it's earned, and she can teach us that it is a good thing. The fact that she has been denigrated and called cocky - I mean, she's the best in the world! I hope my work can inspire other women to have that swagger and believe that they can have it all.”

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Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“All I knew was I just wanted to make music, I wasn't thinking about label politics or what that means. It was really much simpler back then but yea I was discouraged a little bit. I felt really confident in my skills when I was that young, I was really cocky when I was younger.”

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Author:Lloyd

“Suddenly people were saying I was cocky because I'd done a Steven Spielberg movie and thought I was better than everyone else, which surprised me at first. I suddenly started feeling like a freak because everyone was treating me differently. It was confusing, and I did wonder if acting was for me anymore.”

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Author:Christian Bale

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

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

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

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Author:Ann Landers

“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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Author:Paul McCartney

“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

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Book:A little book in C major

Source: A little book in C major

“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”

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Book:Pnin

Source: Pnin

“Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.”

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Book:Notes to Myself

Source: Notes to Myself

“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.”

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Author:Lisa Marie Presley

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

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Book:Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life

Source: Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life

“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.”

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Author:Peter Berg

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

“Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“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.”

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Author:Ken Venturi

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

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Book:Artemis Fowl

Source: Artemis Fowl

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

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Book:Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“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.”

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Author:Ann Landers

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