A Quote by Kinky Friedman

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.

Kinky Friedman

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Kinky Friedman
American - Novelist
Born: November 1, 1944

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.

Timothy Miller

I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.

David Chang

I'm not cocky, I'm humble, but I think I can be really special, one of the top players in the league.

Joel Embiid

I want to stay humble and not sound cocky. But at the same time I don't want to be the little high schooler.

Mary Cain

A lot of people think I'm cocky or arrogant but I'm really just chill and cool and humble.

Moneybagg Yo

I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

Conor McGregor

There's nothing I hate more than an over-cocky person. I have friends that'll be all cocky and then go out and get their butt whooped. They're the worst.

Hailie Deegan

I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.

Shabazz Muhammad

I haven't gotten overly confident or cocky. I think staying level and humble has helped me through the bad times and the good times.

Kyle Larson

Am I cocky or conceited? I'm definitely cocky. But at the root is confidence and humility.

Frank Shamrock

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.

Schoolboy Q

I'm cocky. It's different. Cocky is playful.

Adam Levine

When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.

Richard Dreyfuss

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Ezra Taft Benson

Success hasn't changed me at all. I'm still the same cocky, arrogant guy I've always been. The only difference now is that I'm busy all the time.

Billy Squier

It's not hard for me to stay humble. I think there is always somebody better than me, so that's what keeps me humble. A lot of people could learn how to stay humble.

Kevin Owens

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