Hull Quotes

The amount of people that have said, ‘You’ve inspired me to be confident. I’ve come out to my friends because of you,’ that reduces me to tears every time, because I’m just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody‘s life. That’s massive to me. Massive.

As far as I’m concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it’s an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that’s who you play to. It’s not money – it’s good to get some, but that’s not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

I love Hull as a club, the people there are amazing, at Watford and now Everton. I have big respect for all of them.

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

Society‘s dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies.

My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey – an insane and sadistic decision.

Then me and my dad came up to Hull, our heads were turned and then the next week I was signing for Hull at 17. It all happened quite quickly but I was buzzing for it and it has benefited me now. It’s been an unbelievable journey so far.

I always ask God if it is his will, and if so, then let it be. Whatever comes out of it I will accept it. That’s the message I got and that’s why I’m here at Hull.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

I’d gone from being a normal HR worker from Hull to being recognised in the street, being on TV. As much as it was exciting, thrilling, and a big, huge adrenaline rush.

When I got the chance to play in the Premier League with Hull City in 2014, I had lived a lot of real life.

I’m going to have to get used to the pace of the Premier League and the technical side of it. I had a little taste of it at Hull before they were relegated in 2017, but I’ve developed a lot as a player since then.

The Hull job had been offered to me and while watching Chelsea against Bayern Munich I was thinking: ‘I’m going to give it a crack.’ I’d rather be managing than commentating.

I took a big risk to come to Hull, I have to be honest. But I loved it there, I really did. Great club and great people.

When I moved to Hull and I was playing against players in the Premier League, maybe I pinched myself then.

Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you’re going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine… or a hull, now that I think about it.

I don’t like sitting on the bench even when it was very rare at Hull to rest during cup games.

I’ve been relegated at Hull, but to make a World Cup squad and reach an FA Cup semi-final at Hull is something I am really proud of.

Like I’ve always said, I’m with Hull no matter what the interest.

I had experience in abundance at Manchester United and it’s up to me to bring that here to Hull.

The first games were against Belgium and Switzerland, and that changed me as well because I used to play striker at Hull, and when I went away with Wales, I played as a winger.