Everton Quotes

If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs. ~ Timothy F. Cahill

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

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

I am one of those lucky marvels whose husband has banned them from the kitchen, the last and now permanent ban was during an Everton Three (door slamming on hand) when he'd lamented, in a crazed manner to no one in particular after my failed tomato soup experiment, 'She'd burn air, so she would,' accompanied by wild pacing around the tomato splattered linoleum. ~ Lily Graham

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

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. ~ Bill Shankly

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

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. ~ David Moyes

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

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. ~ Duncan Ferguson

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

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) ~ Bill Shankly

Everton are now hitting the ropes running. ~ Glenn Hoddle

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

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

WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day. ~ Dixie Dean

Numbers show kane is well able 78 words Harry Kane again justified his selection by Tottenham Hotspur yesterday with a fine performance against Everton. He has arguably been the pick of their forwards this season. ~ Anonymous

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same. ~ Alan Ball

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton. ~ Joe Royle

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. ~ Andy Burnham

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. ~ Robbie Fowler

When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long ~ Paul Merson

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

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. ~ Linda McCartney

I noticed, as I often noticed at English soccer matches, that I was the only person in the stadium enjoying himself. The rest of the spectators, on both sides, were perpetually stressed and dismayed. A man behind me was simply full of despair.

"Now why did he do that?" he would say. "What was he thinking? Why didn't he pass it?"

His companion seemed to have some issues with eighteenth century German metaphysics because he kept saying over and over, "Fucking Kant." I am not quite sure how he was relating this to the actions before us, but every time Everton failed to score, he called them a "load of fucking Kants. ~ Bill Bryson

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

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

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

It was the Reverend Ben Swift Chambers who was the acknowledged founding father of St Domingo's football team and therefore Everton FC. Chambers' unkempt, lost grave was discovered in the Yorkshire village of Shepley, and then restored thanks to the investigative work of author Peter Lupson and the full support of Everton FC. ~ Everton Football Club

Everton" (Francis)
Alex turned his head to view a rainbow peacock mask bobbing toward him. "Good Lord, Francis, you are replendent," he said admiringly.
The peacock stopped beside him. "Dash it, Everton, how'd you know it was me?"
You're still wearing your faux ruby ring. ~ Suzanne Enoch

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

Everton are literally a bag of Revells. ~ Paul Merson

Until a man can think soundly and logically; he's not a man but a mere drifter into the wind. ~ Everton Forbes

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 ~ Neville Southall

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

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