Booger McFarland Quotes

You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.

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.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

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

Living with eight other people teaches you what to give up and what to take from others, and you have to appreciate each other.

As a team, we're all inside a bubble. Each of us only has so much room to operate. You have to carve out your space and recognize that because of someone else's needs, you might have to compromise a bit.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

In football, I've always been about adapting to what's asked of me, to what my team-mates need from me. I'm a team player.

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

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

I believe you can work with anybody.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

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

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

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

I play well with everybody.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

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.

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