Steve Kerr - What Coaching Brings Me

"Coaching has unlocked the best version of myself," he told me in March. "I have to constantly be evolving, thinking, growing. I have to work on myself, learning how to be kinder and gentler to myself the same way I am with others. And I've had to learn to fight this very human instinct that I'm not good enough. Like most people, I'm insecure. I want to be great but I don't really know if I am or not, but I've learned the value of just being really kind and competitive at the same time. I've lived this charmed existence, an amazing life, a blessed, fortunate one, but I've also been through some s--- with my dad's death and my own health the last decade. I think I'm scared that I will lose that daily engagement and purpose that not only feeds my soul, but helps me deal with my literal chronic daily pain. If I knew I could retire and go do the physical stuff that I love, it would be a lot easier. But I can't do a lot of that stuff anymore. So I'm scared of being at home without the constant engagement and friendships that coaching brings me!"