It may not be in a week or in a month or even in a year. But if you consistently outwork your competition, day after day and week after week than it is only a matter of time until you beat them.
If you never do beat them...guess what. You never outworked them. You never committed. Committing means you do it without fail. Whether you are strung out, hung over, eyes bulging out of your head, too tired, it's too cold, too hot, or too hard.
Here is the secret of the pros. The pros train. They train consistently and they train indefinetely. The ones who are at the top of their field...the elite...trained harder and longer than anyone else.
(Jane, sorry if you consider this hijacking....let me know and I'll pull it)