To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.
Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.
Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.
If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.
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.
People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve
Dylan, this is my friend, Sadie, I told you about. ” He looked at me and gave me a slow smile. “Amanda said you were at school last year. How did I miss you?” he asked, his smile turning into a cocky grin. Before I could think of anything to say, Amanda cleared her throat, again and said, “And this is her date tonight, Jax Stone.
Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.
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.
I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.
In person I am everything and more. I'm everywhere these other niggas never been before.
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.
I was a little bit of a cocky kid.
My fans are really loud but they are great. I've never liked someone so much to go up and scream that loud.
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.
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.
Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbehave or he'd personally kill us all. He didn't actually say those words, but that was the subtext.
I’m cocky in prediction, I’m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat.