Alan Ball Quotes

I got to know the world of football fans and their pride in it, how they would find a family away from home. Most of them came from broken families. It always had a bit of romance to me, when I went to the game with all these boys that would just die for each other.

I want to have a lot of success with Everton.

I have been around football all of my life.

Once you coach football in Texas, you fall in love with it.

Everton means the world to me.

I was born a football player and I love this game.

Everton fans don't just come to watch the football. They are there for Everton, the club. They really believe in the history of the club.

It's not an easy game at Goodison Park - it's always difficult there.

I always followed Everton. If the team were playing on television, I would watch the game. If not, then I would look to check the results. I always wanted to see how they were doing.

I love Everton and all I think about is playing for Everton.

The great thing about the NFL is that you get into it for love, and you realise it is a fabulous business.

Cleveland and football have always held a special place in my heart.

In football there's passion so you have lifelong fans, they bring their sons up, their grandchild comes.

When I am not playing or training, I watch football all the time.

I love English football because of its brilliant atmosphere, intensity of the competition and the culture of respect that fans and players have for the game.

I'm happy here at Everton. When I decided to come here, I came thinking only in my club, which is Everton, and nothing else. What has to happen next will happen next. I feel comfortable here. I do not know whether my game is more suited to the Premier league or La Liga, but I am very well here.

Playing for Liverpool, I know what the relationship between the fans and the club is like. With every player, you can see the desire to win, the desire to show that Liverpool are the best and deserve to win the league.

The game of football is always changing.

I love football. I mean, I've gotten a chance to spend a couple of moments with Peyton Manning and have just deeply intense great football nuance conversation with him.

Listen, everybody likes the football their way.

Always at Goodison Park, Everton is a very good team.

At a club like Everton, we've always set our standards high.

I was an Evertonian as a kid, but I've never hated Man United. I've always had respect for them.

I know how much football means in England. They love it. That's why it's great to be here.

I love Liverpool FC. My dad used to take me to games because he was a shareholder at Everton. When I came down to London, I realised that Liverpool FC was my team.