While more people are working later in life because of happy things like longer life expectancy, they are also doing so because of very sad things, like a lack of Social Security benefits or retirement plans.
A lot of motivational speakers - players, coaches, or whatever - they kind of speak in these kind of age-old mantras, or cliches or whatnot. Kobe was very much not like that.
I've heard a lot of motivational speakers throughout the years.