When you do well for a team like Everton, it's easier to go into a top team and establish yourself.
When I think about a mid-table club like Everton spending £150 million during the summer, I am lost for words.
The Everton goal was very important. It was the one that got us through, and it was great to go into the crowd and celebrate with the fans.
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.
Midfield, defence - I have even played out wide for Everton, so I will do a job anywhere and give 100 percent.
I am happy at Everton, and I can't do anything else other than concentrate on my own game.
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.
What does Everton chairman Bill Kenwright think he will get for £6m? Andy Johnson's trainers?
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)
So long as I keep performing week in, week out for Everton, I will have the chance to stay England number one.
It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.
I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.
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.
I would never have left Everton for anybody but an ambitious football club. And I thought Manchester United would have given me that opportunity.
I want to be the top scorer of the league, take Everton back to the Champions League, and reach the Brazilian national team.
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 am aiming high. I want to achieve a lot here, make history here, and make a name for myself at Everton.
I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.
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.
It was hard for me to leave because Everton were my boyhood club. I supported them from when I was a young kid.
The job at Everton was so good. I worked for a great chairman, great people at the club.
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.
Everton have put their faith in me, and I intend to honour this shirt and demonstrate on the pitch why I came here.
I've played as a winger all of my professional life and I'm looking forward to doing that now in front of the Everton fans.
I just want to thank Everton for the opportunity and Watford for having opened the doors for me in England.
It was a big decision to leave Everton and it took me a lot of time to think over.
I gave everything I could in trying to make Everton the best I could.
I worked hard at Everton. I learned many things, and I was lucky enough to achieve my goal of returning home.
When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
I'd always like to score at Goodison Park, being an Everton fan growing up. Anfield as well would be a nice place to score.
It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.
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.
The Everton fans seem to know football, seem to understand it, it seems to be in their blood and they really back the team.
We never seem to make things easy for ourselves at Everton, and at City, it was the same, having to come from behind to get ahead in the big games.
Within 24 hours of my departure from Everton, I had already received the first offer. Then they kept coming, but I keep it all away from me.
I was 32 when I signed for Everton, and Roberto Martinez said, 'With your style of game, you can play until you're 40.' I'm sitting there laughing at him, but he was deadly serious. I still laughed.
I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans
Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.
As a kid, I looked up to Gazza, and to Wayne Rooney because he came through at Everton. Zidane has been one of my favourite players and I was always watching videos of him.
I always had that youngster tag at Arsenal, so hopefully with this move I am able to make a name for myself in the Premier League and create history with 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.
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.
Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.
Normally in the past whenever Everton have beaten Liverpool, the accusation was that they wanted it a little bit more.
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 was at Everton from the age seven. Being there 14 years meant any move was going to be big.
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.
No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton
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 like to think I have shown I am ready to live up to the expectations of being Everton's number nine.
I'd gone through a lot of ups and downs and learnt from a lot of experiences as a young player joining Everton and playing under pressure.
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.
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 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.
Both Everton and City have fantastic sets of fans who really get behind the players.
In my living room I always used to tell my mum 'one day I'll score for Everton' and when that happened it was unbelievable for me.
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.
Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals
Everton was a great club for me with great teammates.
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