To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
That was your bad, how could you pass up on em? He just take them records and he gas up on em.
It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
[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.
Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
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.
It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky. . but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do
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. '
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.
The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really ALL THEM. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the KITE – it's the AIR.
It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.
But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.