Top 60 Everton Quotes

I was a young manager at Everton and had 11 great years there.

We had something over Everton in those games during the Eighties. We knew it and they did too. It was a huge thing to have, that psychological advantage, and we made the most of it.

Every time I have played against Everton, whether it was home or away, straight away the first thing that comes to mind when you see the fans is passion.

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

I hope I can fulfill all my ambitions at Everton. But you never know in this game.

There here has been some exceptional players to wear the No 9 shirt for Everton. For me to get that number, I knew what it meant and I knew what was required.

I love Hull as a club, the people there are amazing, at Watford and now Everton. I have big respect for all of them.

I want to be the top scorer of the league, take Everton back to the Champions League, and reach the Brazilian national team.

I like to think I have shown I am ready to live up to the expectations of being Everton’s number nine.

At Everton, we have always tried to do good deals and have always tried to buy at the right age and the right price.

I don’t have doubts that Everton is a big club.

I’d been at Everton for more than 11 years. We’d qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I’d been voted manager of the season three times.

I would never have left Everton for anybody but an ambitious football club. And I thought Manchester United would have given me that opportunity.

When I think about a mid-table club like Everton spending £150 million during the summer, I am lost for words.

I was at Everton from the age seven. Being there 14 years meant any move was going to be big.

Maybe it’s old-fashioned, but I’ve always preferred to see players with my own eyes than on a video or going on somebody else’s recommendation. If that means getting up early and taking a flight, then so be it. Our success at Everton came from having a great recruitment team who I made sure were out watching the players.

I’d like Everton to be known as the better team in Liverpool.

The main reason I have joined Everton is not to try to help my England ambitions – that will come if I am playing consistently well for Everton.

If I got sacked because my results weren’t good enough at Everton, I accept it, but getting sacked when they finish eighth, it is ridiculous. In fact, it is ludicrous.

There’s been a lot come through at Everton: Wayne Rooney, obviously, and lately, Victor Anichebe has made it, James Vaughan, and the likes of myself.

I just want to do the best I can, which means hopefully play for the full England side one day and carry on playing well for Everton.

I have to back myself and think if I’m big enough to be picked by Everton and exposed in that situation, then I’m old enough to take whatever comes with it. That’s the way I kind of see it.

I had a DVD and I think it was called ‘Newcastle United: Flying High’ in 2002 or 2003. I used to watch that all of the time, I think it was the year Shearer scored that famous volley against Everton.

I was not guaranteed a starting place at Everton. I had a lot of injuries. Darron Gibson and Marouane Fellaini were in form, so it was a push for me to get in that side.

You can’t play for Everton if you can’t handle the expectation because the fans love the club so much and I have played in some tough European away nights at a young age when things have not gone very well.

When I broke into the Everton side under Roberto Martinez, I was playing in the No. 10 role, and I had never played there before, so I was getting used to that role as a first-team player.

It took time at Everton to build a team so that when we did go to United or Arsenal or Liverpool, we went with a good chance of getting a result.

I hope I have a long future here with Everton. It is a daily task to improve.

I don’t know if desperate is the right word but I know the fans have a big, big desire to see Everton challenging for titles and to win something but we have to go day by day.

I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the likes of Ross Barkley and Wayne Rooney when they were young.

I gave everything I could in trying to make Everton the best I could.

It was hard for me to leave because Everton were my boyhood club. I supported them from when I was a young kid.

We had a really good club at Everton who gave me the opportunity to do the job the way I felt it needed to be done.

Getting the opportunity to become England’s number one was down to being at Everton, I believe, and being able to put in solid performances week in and week out.

I had a great time at Everton when I was there and came away from that with a lot of high regard.

Everton was a great club for me with great teammates.

I have been playing box-to-box more for Everton as a two, so I have felt comfortable in that position, but anywhere across the midfield I can play.

If I believe I’m still a young kid, it’s hindering me. I am leading the line for Everton so you have to grow into your shoes and carry that weight on your shoulders.

When family and friends go to Everton, they tell me that there’s a moment when I get the ball, and fans get to their feet in anticipation. There’s so much at stake that people live under permanent pressure.

I just want to do the best I can, which means playing for the England full side one day and carry on playing well for Everton.

I first remember Wayne Rooney from a game at Old Trafford in 2002 when he came on as a late substitute for Everton and, in a brilliant 15-minute performance, skipped past me on a couple of occasions.

I like Everton. If I’m going to cheer for that kind of football team, I’m going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.

I want to have a lot of success with Everton.

Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don’t take it for granted.

You’ve seen players at Everton who have been built up but haven’t made the grade.

The job at Everton was so good. I worked for a great chairman, great people at the club.

Its Arsenal 0 – Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you’ve got to fancy Everton.

I got scouted at six by Everton. My parents said it was maybe a bit too young. A year later, I went down to trials at Everton and have been there ever since.

My mum has always kept my feet on the ground and told me that if I carry on working hard it will pay off. I used to say ‘If I play for Everton one day’ and she would always say ‘No, when you play for Everton.’

His potential is greater and higher than Everton as a final destination. If Romelu was to play at Everton until the end of his career I know he has left something behind.

When you are a club like Everton, you only have one solution – to aim to win.

I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.

The type of football I played at Everton, the fans said it wasn’t good enough and I would say the same – I knew it wasn’t good enough for Everton – but I knew I had to get them in the position where they were safe.

Everton have put their faith in me, and I intend to honour this shirt and demonstrate on the pitch why I came here.

I am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to afford me the opportunity to spend time with my kids.

I would have to say my best moment as an Everton player would probably be making my debut against Arsenal, coming on to such a good atmosphere as well. I was on the pitch when Ashley Williams scored the header and I remember he ran the full length of the pitch, and me being quite new I chased him all the way.

Everton as a football club has a great history.

I am aiming high. I want to achieve a lot here, make history here, and make a name for myself at Everton.

I love Liverpool FC. My dad used to take me to games because he was a shareholder at Everton. When I came down to London, I realised that Liverpool FC was my team.

When you do well for a team like Everton, it’s easier to go into a top team and establish yourself.