Simon Conway Morris Quotes

A bit of arrogance is nice every now and then.

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

I can be a little cocky.

I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

I was a cocky kid.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

In baseball I was pretty cocky.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

Everyone has attitude, and I think everyone should have attitude. But I know I have attitude, but that's just, I think if you don't have attitude, it comes only with self confidence. So if you don't have self confidence, you won't have attitude, and I think there's a difference when you have attitude and when you have arrogance.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say.

I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?