outwork

“You’ve got to get in there and outwork them, outthink them, outperform them,” Dennis had told his son, “until there’s no doubt in anybody’s mind that you should be in there.”

“But that is my work ethic. You know, you always feel like you wish you could get something — the accomplishments you want — based on your work ethic. But it doesn’t happen that way in this game, you know, it really doesn’t. You just never know how the ball falls and, for me, the only thing I do know is to try to outwork somebody else. So, that’s what I plan to do.”

“He will outwork anybody,” Young said.

“So not only did I start seeing myself differently, but other players did. It kind of fueled me from then on. I was like, without even working that hard, I can outwork everyone. What if I actually went harder? So that’s what I did. That’s what I still do.”

“She runs harder and runs faster than her opponents. Nobody’s going to outwork her.”