Pre Season Quotes:

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 you do your own family. Pre-season is the time we get used to each other and work out how people work. It can be a lot of fun. Hard but fun.

- Colin Kazim-Richards

source: "Football Pre-Season Training". Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. July 15, 2012.

topic: Fun, Team, Men, Pre Season

All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

- Emmitt Smith

topic: Hard Work, Men, Work Harder, Pre Season, Motivational Speakers

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

- Brett Favre

source: "Exclusive: Brett Favre 'On the Record'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2008.

topic: Games, Nfl, Lines, Pre Season, Super Bowl

The shopping is not finished and before the pre-season starts I would like to bring in another two players. I like shopping, maybe I have become a woman.

- Paolo Di Canio

topic: Player, Shopping, Two, Pre Season

We have been saying this, both pre season and before the season started

- Len Ashurst

topic: Soccer, Funny Soccer, Pre Season

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come

- Dennis Bergkamp

source: "Dennis Bergkamp" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

topic: Thinking, League, Champion, Pre Season, Champions League

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

topic: Football, Player, Years, Pre Season

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 at the beginning, your times aren't getting any better and it looks like you actually aren't getting fitter.

- Colin Kazim-Richards

source: "Football Pre-Season Training". Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. July 15, 2012.

topic: Trying, Looks, Bombs, Eighteen, Pre Season

Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment for me due to the context, but I quickly accepted the result as evidence of what my preparation has been the past 3 years.

- Benjamin Boukpeti

topic: Athlete, Past, Emotional, Pre Season

It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.

- Laurent Jalabert

topic: Years, Want, Today, Morale, Pre Season