Being Cocky Quotes

• Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.

  LeBron James

  Inspirational, Basketball, Selfish

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

  Ann Landers

  Cocky, Class, Auras

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• 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

  Cocky, Greatness, Names

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

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• Know what you are talking about.

  Pope John Paul II

  Knowledge, Knowing Jesus, Talking

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

  Puff Daddy

  Cocky, Pride, Way

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• Know what you're talking about.

  George H. W. Bush

  Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Cocky, Men, Play

  "Hot Topic: John Gallagher Jr." by Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 22, 2012.

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

  Jazmine Sullivan

  Cocky

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• 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

  Cocky, Games, Eight

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