“We are not going to Everton looking for autographs, we are looking for points and that is the difference”
Neil Warnock

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

“Football was never the same for me after I left Everton and although I always wanted to win, losing never really seemed to hurt anymore.”
Kevin Ratcliffe

“We were always the better team but Everton threw on their He-Men and I was always worried they would get a touch or ricochet.”
Steve Bruce

“Other than ten minutes before half-time, we have played very, very well today.”
Graeme Souness

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

“Everton FC are really missing the loss of Arteta, and it’s sticking out like a sore throat.”
Ronnie Goodlass

“I was in the crowd when Bob Latchford scored a penalty in the last minute, there was a mass invasion of the pitch and I was one of those who ran on.”
Derek Mountfield

“Once a Blue, always a Blue.”
Wayne Rooney

“I came to Everton to win.”
Andy Gray

“Duncan Ferguson elbowed me in the neck three times and I was beginning to get a bit angry. I swore at him in Austrian and I know he couldn’t possibly have understood it. Even so, he suddenly swung round and thumped me in the stomach. He got sent off, but I began to appreciate how he earned his reputation as a hard man. It was a nice punch, I have to say.”
Paul Scharner

“There was nothing like quietening that Kop. When you stuck a goal in there it all went quiet, apart from a bit of choice language aimed in your direction! Scoring there was a delight to me. I just used to turn round to the crowd and bow three times to them”
Dixie Dean

“When I signed, I was told I was going to be the first of many big money signings. Someone was telling fibs”.
John Collins

“Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same”
Alan Ball

“Don’t Forget Boys, One Evertonian Is Worth Twenty Liverpudlians”
Brian Labone.

“Everton have always been noted for going out on the pitch to play football. We got called the school of science quite rightly. The other lot, the Reds…. well they were a gang of butchers! …. they should have been working in an abattoir. McNab, McKinlay, the Wadsworths. God bless my soul. They’d kick an old woman”
Dixie Dean

“I used to stick the ball in the net and bow three times to the kop. They never liked me doing that.”
Dixie Dean

“I’d break every bone in my body for any club I play for but I’d die for Everton”
Dave Hickson.