Becoming the best in any sport is a rare feat. Maintaining that success over a long period of time is even more difficult. Steve Kerr has had more NBA success than most. He won five rings as a player and has four more as coach of the Golden State Warriors. Kerr is always humble about his own triumphs, giving credit to players like Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan and Steph Curry but it\u2019s no accident that he keeps finding himself holding a trophy with confetti raining down on him.<\/p>\n
Kerr appeared on the most recent episode of the\u00a0Glue Guys podcast, sharing a story of a time when the Warriors and he received an invaluable lesson from Roger Federer, widely considered the greatest tennis player of all-time.<\/p>\n
The Warriors were in China in 2017 to participate in the NBA Global Games and Federer happened to be in town to play in the Shanghai Masters. Kerr arranged a meeting and after Draymond Green asked the Swiss legend how he sustains excellence, he received a surprising answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think everybody was expecting an answer like, \u2018I work so hard and I do this and I do that,’\u201d Kerr said<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cbut his answer was very Scottie Scheffler-like.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe said, \u2018You know, I love my life. I wake up every morning, I cook breakfast for my kids, then I take \u2019em to school. And then I drop \u2019em off and then I go practice tennis for like two hours, and I\u2019ve got a great routine now that I\u2019ve figured out where I can get all my work in in a really joyful way without killing my body, but keeps me in great shape, ready for the next tournament,’\u201dKerr recalled.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Then I go home and I love to cook, so I cook my kids dinner, and we hang around a little bit and everybody goes to bed, and I put my head on the pillow and I go, that was a great day. So I\u2019ve been doing that for 20 years, and that works for me,’\u201d he added.<\/p>\n