Everton Quotes

Everton are now hitting the ropes running.

Everton have a healthy list of injuries.

When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long

It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.

Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second only to Everton FC.

Don't worry, Alan. At least you'll be able to play close to a great team.  (to Alan Ball, who'd just signed for Everton)

My Dad was briefly an Everton player and I used to follow them as a boy.

I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans

I think I was always going to be an Everton player from the day I was born. There is a certain type of player who is an Everton player

I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

It was the best 10 years of my career, in fact they are the only team I ever actually played for. That’s what happens when you play for Everton, you forget the rest, the rest means nothing.

I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.

The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.

I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

What does Everton chairman Bill Kenwright think he will get for £6m? Andy Johnson's trainers?

Everton are a bigger club than Liverpool. Everywhere you go on Merseyside you bump into Everton supporters.

Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

I used to hate Ian Rush when I was young, because I was a devout Evertonian in those days, and he seemed to score every time Liverpool played against us. It's strange to think he used to support Everton too when he was a kid. He was brilliant to me at Anfield always giving me good advice.

No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton