Everton Quotes

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

  Bill Shankly

  Queens, Differences, Soccer Fans

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

  Alan Ball

  Touched

  "There is something special about Everton" by Luke O'Farrell, www.espn.com. October 23, 2013.

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

  Graeme Souness

  Bumps, Goes On, Clubs

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

  Bill Shankly

  Garden, Curtains, Draws

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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

  Bill Shankly

  League, Looks, Tables

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• 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

  Writing, Should Have, Clubs

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• 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

  Team, Mean, Years

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• 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

  Hate, Fans, Grew Up

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

  Bill Shankly

  Sunday, League, Looks

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• 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

  Football, Team, Winning

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• 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

  Play, Disrespect, Fans

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• 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

  Want, Manchester United, Chelsea

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• 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

  Football, Dream, Opportunity

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• 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

  Player, Thinking, Born

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

  David Moyes

  Football, People, Fans

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• 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

  Hate, Kids, Thinking

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

  Michael Owen

  Dad, Player, Boys

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• Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

  Paul Merson

  Football, Bags

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

  Joe Royle

  Player, Legends, Duncan

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• 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

  Team, Play, Worry

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• 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

  Strong, Moon, Support

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• 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.

  Alan Ball

  Pride, Clubs, Captains

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• 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

  Clubs, Invitations, Has Beens

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

  Iain Dowie

  Football, Favour

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