Benson Henderson

A lot of times, people take other people's confidence for cockiness, airheadedness, rashness or brashness, and that's the light in which they see you when you say you always knew you'd be a champion, blah blah blah. Well, you have to be confident in the sport we do. As an athlete, in general, you have to be confident.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Russell Peters

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.

Canadian Comedian

Jerry Saltz

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

American Critic

Cole Sprouse

It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.

American Actor

Carlos Mencia

The fact that so many comics were waiting to jump on the bandwagon of hate toward me - what is it about me that engages this kind of behavior? I began to see it: My cockiness, my lack of hanging out with other comics. A lot of that wasn't my fault.

American Comedian

Rory McIlroy

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

Irish Golfer

Amir Khan

You have to be confident when you've got someone in front of you who wants to beat you and take the title from you. But I think people mistake my confidence for arrogance or cockiness.

British Athlete

Rick Ross

When you walk in a room, the room should feel that this guy's different. What does he do? Who is he? And that's confidence, not cockiness.

American Musician

Frances Tiafoe

I never try to get ahead of myself because there's nothing that bothers me more than cockiness. I don't think that's necessary at all.

American Athlete

Bret Bielema

Don't confuse confidence with cockiness. I really believe that.

American Coach

Cockiness often carries a negative impression, suggesting disrespect or contempt for others.

Negative Connotation

Cockiness goes beyond confidence; it implies an overestimation of one's own abilities or worth.

Overconfidence

Perceptions of cockiness can vary by culture; what appears self-confident in one may be seen as rude in another.

Cultural Perception

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Drew Dudley: Everyday...

 us we made it about changing the world and we've taken this title of leader and we treat it as if it's something that one day we're going to deserve but to give it to ourselves right now means a level of arrogance or cockiness that we're not comfortable with and I worry sometimes that we spend so much time celebrating amazing things that hardly