Quotes About Everton

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

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

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

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.

The biggest thing I will miss is 4 July when Everton are due back for pre-season training. I loved that day. I lived for it, getting back with the lads.

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.

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.

I achieved my dream of playing for Everton, from a young age I always dreamed of scoring for Everton.

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.

When I spoke to Everton, the plan, the project, the history of the club was interesting. If I didn't see ambition in Everton I wouldn't come to Everton and that's maybe a good message to all of the players.

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

It is easy to understand when Everton performed better it was when they had stability.

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.

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 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.

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.

It's true I was interested in going to Everton, but I didn't accept the offer.

It's the same in England,' they'd tell her. 'Wherever you've got Catholics and Protestants in the same place.' Manchester had United (Catholic) and City (Protestant), Liverpool had Liverpool (Catholic) and Everton (Protestant). It only got complicated in London. London even had Jewish teams.

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.

I hope to win something here, with Everton.

I'm very happy at Everton; it's a very good club with very good structure. The fans love the club and the players.

It was a big decision to leave Everton and it took me a lot of time to think over.

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.

I've always thought Everton was a great club.