Motivation Quote by Dixie Dean

There is something quietly deflating about Dixie Dean’s “WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day” - a line that sounds like small talk, but carries a whole era of football inside it. The emphasis on “WE” isn’t just grammar; it’s identity. Dean isn’t presenting himself as a solitary legend. He’s speaking as a representative of a club culture where the team moved as a unit, and where the badge mattered at least as much as the individual.

The key phrase is “in my day,” a soft-edged claim to authority that doubles as a lament. It suggests a football world that was less optimized and more communal: summer tours as scrappy, half-holiday, half-labor circuits that built fitness, money, and loyalty in the same breath. For supporters, these trips helped stitch regional clubs into wider publics; for players, they meant constant travel with little of the modern infrastructure that now protects elite bodies and brands.

Dean’s intent feels less like bragging than calibration. He’s reminding listeners that “touring” wasn’t a PR exercise or a global marketing strategy; it was simply part of the job, folded into the rhythm of working-class sport. The subtext is a gentle critique of modern football’s sleek professionalism: today’s “preseason tours” sell a product. Dean’s tours built a club.