Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.
I feel like if you outwork everybody, you're giving yourself the best opportunity every time you go into an event. You want to outwork everybody, and you want to beat everybody. Put in the work, and the results will come.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.
I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.
Every day in WWE is blessing, and every day, I have to outwork my competition.
When I lose, I'll get knocked out. It won't be because I got outworked or outskilled or anything like that.
I started to get addicted to the Jerry Rice mentality. I can get up before anyone else does. I can outwork anyone.
My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.
You have to work more than your adversary.
I may not be smarter, I may not be as well-known, but I know I can outwork any of them.
You've got to work hard, got to outwork the other guy and got to outwork the other team. Sometimes outsmart them every now and then, but it all starts with the work.
Your offense might not be great every game, but defense is just about working hard and outworking your opponents.
You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.
They may be smarter than you. They may have more money than you. They may come from a different city or a better family. But they can NEVER outwork you. And they can NEVER outprepare you. And they just can't outpractice you. And that's why you'll win.
Outwork the bullshit. That means nothing can rattle you when your conditions are set. And the way you set those conditions is by working damn hard.
