Roger Federer and Mirka Federer (Getty Images) Federer’s answer was surprisingly simple“Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off.

“‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together.

The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school.

There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.”

“And it was like, yes. That’s it.

That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success.”

Not just about working harderThe important part was not simply how much Federer trained. “He loves tennis.

He loves his family. He loves life.”

That was a very different answer from the one the Warriors expected to hear. Instead of presenting longevity as a battle against exhaustion, Federer described a routine that allowed him to keep returning to his craft without losing his enthusiasm for it.

Why Federer made Kerr think of CurryYears later, Kerr would draw a parallel between Federer and Stephen Curry — two superstars from entirely different sports who have nevertheless made extraordinary athletic excellence look almost effortless. Federer’s movement around a tennis court and Curry’s movement on a basketball court have a similar visual quality: precision, balance and timing wrapped in an apparent ease that can obscure the work underneath.

Kerr sees something deeper connecting them. When asked about Curry’s day-to-day conditioning and what stood out about the way the Warriors star maintained himself, Kerr immediately went back to the idea of routine.

Steve Kerr and Steph Curry. (Image via: Michael Reaves / Getty Images) Curry’s routine is “like a metronome”“Just the consistency of his routine – it’s like a metronome every day.

It’s exactly the same. He is in the training room, he is in the weight room, he’s on the court.

It’s clockwork, but there’s also a sense of joy and energy within that work. He enjoys it so much, he loves the process.”

“I think that’s one of the things that ties all great athletes together. I’m talking about the superstar athletes, the Roger Federers of the world, the Steph Currys of the world.

”“There is a passion that comes with it, and that’s what sustains it over time. “I’ve got to get a list of all the guys he’s compared me to: [Former Spurs star] Tim Duncan, Roger Federer.”

“I love to work. You kind of get lost in the sessions you have on the court in practice…in the weight room, wherever it is, because you know it’s going to lead to you being as prepared as possible for those games.

“[There are] days you are tired…but it’s all built on my approach from the time I started, and just trying to carry that every year for as long as I can…win, lose, whatever it is, no matter how you play, you have to keep coming back to the well to keep sharpening the toolkit and finding ways to evolve your game.” That philosophy has allowed Curry to keep reinventing himself as his career has progressed.

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