The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of the year.

- Colin Kazim-Richards

If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think co…

- Colin Kazim-Richards

When you are 18, 19 or 20 you can get away with more, but as you get into your twenties you realise that it is harder and harder to lose what you put…

- Colin Kazim-Richards

When you're seventeen or eighteen, you bomb on in pre-season immediately, try to impress. But then at the end of pre-season because you were so fast …

- Colin Kazim-Richards

Pre-season isn't just about conditioning but also getting used to each other as a team and a group of men. You spend more time with these people than…

- Colin Kazim-Richards

Everyone thinks footballers have it easy and at this time of year see loads of pictures of players relaxing on beaches and in bars but what they don'…

- Colin Kazim-Richards

I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though

- Colin Kazim-Richards

Kazim-Richards - there's only one. You type it into Google and nothing else comes up. My first names were meant to be Colin Kazim but the registry of…

- Colin Kazim-Richards