Rivaldo Quotes

You know when you put two great players together, you're going to have to work through some things.

There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches.

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.