Which player would you rather play?

[ZER0]

While I prefer to be humble and attempt to respect everyone...sometimes you just can't help being arrogant especially around inferior players, but sometimes it's those very inferior players that help me keep my feet on the ground.
cocky or humble, imo the difference stems from if you respect your opponent and if you take the game too seriously...at the end of the day, despite what has happened or what will happen, it's simply a game.

Although I do like Alex.J's interpretation of it as well, being humble helps you to realise your place, you're not better than this guy so you won't try or act like you're better than him, when you lose a match you feel nothing because you've accepted you won't get any better than you are now. Being humble can sometimes prove to be hindrance to your own improvement, however arrogance can be that very driving force you need to become better than someone if you really want it

 

[Pocky-Yoshi]

Too humble you'll doubt your own abilities. Too prideful you'll bite off more than you can chew.

Either way, my goal is to win or die trying. The fun is the runbacks, not one's pride.

 

[Party Wolf]

Cocky players inspire me to practice, since I want to smash their face in

 

[Pocky-Yoshi]

Cocky players inspire me to practice, since I want to smash their face in

Better players always inspire me to do my best.

 

[ZER0]

Too humble you'll doubt your own abilities. Too prideful you'll bite off more than you can chew.

Either way, my goal is to win or die trying. The fun is the runbacks, not one's pride.

It's about keeping that balance, pride is a good thing as it motivates you to move forward, too much results in arrogance and big-headedness, causing you to disrespect players, which ends up causing needless beef with people.
Humility is good as it helps you keep your feet on the ground, but keep thinking that and you set a barrier for yourself that you'll believe you're unable to cross it.
In general it's about keeping that healthy respect for your fellow opponent...unless he/she is a complete asshole with no redeemable factor.

If I could use @Alex.J as an example, and I hope he doesn't mind (and purely because I genuinely don't know anyone else who does this) but watching him at EVO and another event that I forget the name of (fought Xeph with his Xiba, and NoFaceKiller in the GF's, I think it was NCR or something).
How he acted and played was typical of a cocky, douchey S.o.B, mocking them, taking the piss outta them. However, end of the match he turned to his opponent, shook hands with them and said GG's...that's the kind of balance one should strive for.