Charles de Lint Quotes

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

It's irrelevant how I prefer to play and what I want. It's all about what works for the team.

You can't expect every idea of yours to stick or even come to fruition, you have to make sacrifices for the greater good of the team.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.

Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

I believe you can work with anybody.

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

I play well with everybody.

I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

We find ourselves at times irked at the role of junior partner … nevertheless … partnership is worth the price.

Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team.

A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing.

At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful.

I'm just an all-around player that does whatever my team needs.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

You can put yourself to the purpose of others, and in doing so, you can be better off.

It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.