If you TAKE five wickets, someone has to take the catches. If you score a hundred, someone has to be there with you. You haven't DONE it individually. Some contributions MAY be small, but they are STILL tangible. You have to LOOK at it from a team point of view. When you start looking at it as an individual, then you have no team.
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb WITHOUT a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's BIRTH canal, we begin to attract ENTIRE COLONIES of bacteria. By the time a child can CRAWL, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.
Without COMPETITION, the SPECTACULAR development of TECHNOLOGY that we have seen in the last one hundred YEARS in this country would not have happened.
For THREE hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle AGES did not THINK of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for EXPLORATION and discovery.