Quotes About Bravado

Thou wanton: dost thou dare call me noodle?

In their minds it is the mark of an ill-prepared and amateur army to rely in the moments before battle on what they call pseudoandreia, false courage, meaning the artificially inflated martial frenzy produced by a general's eleventh-hour harangue or some peak of bronze-banging bravado built to by shouting, shield-pounding and the like[...] It made no difference. None was a match for the warriors of Lakedaemon, and all knew it.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

I'm not just the best in NXT; I'm not just the best in the WWE: I'm the best on the freaking planet.

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC.

throwing his cock around like it was a boomerang.

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to be immortalized by a writing self that is incapable of performing its actions without mixing our essence with what is false.

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

One did not act so cheekily nonchalant by accident;

Yes, I am the best footballer in the world.

I run New York City!

I definitely can shoot. I definitely like to talk trash, too.

I would always talk trash to my brother and my cousin. I would tell them, 'I'm already better than you!'

I slap people in public, especially erring policemen. I can even challenge them to a duel. I am a gunfighter.

'This guy's a clown! He's just all talk!' I've heard that many times in my career. And then they're sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It will never happen in my lifetime.' If the prediction is something they deplore and fear, they say it with calculated bravado, often adding a smug, snorty hhrrummph.

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch.

I'm better than Jon Jones. I'm better than Sean Combs. I am even better than John Holmes.