Top 60 Matt Doherty Quotes

There’s talented players in the Ireland set-up and if we can get all us gelling together, you’ll have a good team.

I’m not keeping track, but I’ve got six goals and seven assists! Of course you keep track of it. If anyone says they don’t, they’re lying!

I was in the team and then I had COVID and came out, and struggled to get back in.

I might look back and think, ‘was I really that bad?’

What you really want to do is sit down and eat everything in the house. You can never do it, you’ve got to be disciplined, but in the back of your head, you’re sitting there and thinking: ‘what’s in the press, what’s in the fridge?’

We know it is a results business, and also performance business. You have to perform well to get the results.

Look, I want to play as many games as I can, and I want to contribute in a positive way as much as I can.

I left school to go to so many trials. There was no point in me going to school because I was away all the time.

You couldn’t ask for a harder task, trying to get picked ahead of Seamus Coleman.

I did a video interview straight after the Scottish Cup Final and I reacted to some abuse from Twitter. Dangerous, of course. The Hibs fans took it that I didn’t care… they took it all the wrong way.

I’m not playing for Wolves just so I can get in squads. I’m concentrated on playing for Wolves.

I want to try and stay in the game and maybe have that responsibility: picking teams, telling players they’re dropped. It’s something that I might enjoy.

I’ve survived a lot of managers, so I must have been doing something right.

I haven’t been playing that well so far but, hopefully, I can turn that around.

My international career hasn’t kicked off quite as much as I’d have liked it.

The main position is where you want to play.

My mam is Dutch but I’m green.

You still have your own pride, your own personal pride. You can still work hard and get around the pitch.

My thought process is that when they see me play: ‘We’ll have to keep him.’ That’s how I think. But you have to think like that.

It gives you a better chance of playing if you can play a number of positions.

I’m in a rich vein of form. Everything I do seems to come off. I’m playing every weekend; it’s a dream come true for me.

I’ve got Spurs gear on – that’s all I care about.

I scored an own goal against Leicester and when you do that you start to think about things and question yourself.

There’s no point in playing underage football until you are 23. You’ve got to be able to play in games, cope in men’s football and that almost certainly means that you have to go to the lower leagues.

There is competition for places and everyone is bringing the best out of each other. There is no problem there. It’s just the way it is.

When players go into management, they might think they will bring their ideas forward, but when they get into it, it’s difficult to do that.

Technically I’m pescatarian now as I love prawns. And I still have the odd fizzy drink after a game. I’m not a saint.

My left foot is not the strongest but I can be clever by going round somebody or using the right side of my foot.

I am a professional and when I go out there with the badge on, that’s all I’m thinking about. Everything else is in the past. Tottenham is what it is for me now.

You have to try and take games by the scruff of the neck… you can’t mollycoddle everyone.

Management is something I’d like to do in the future, so I look at the different ways of training, the routines.

I have to bide my time, train well and still play well at club level and whenever my time comes to be more of a regular… but I’m just getting on with it. If I play, I play; if I don’t, I don’t, but then I will work harder to try get into the team.

None of us would panic at club level if we were 1-0 down. All of us would be saying to each other, ‘Let’s stay in the game and see what happens,’ so I don’t think anybody would be panicking if that is the case.

You have to see the situations in games, you can’t just rely on other people to do it.

Playing 90 minutes, you’re absolutely shattered afterwards.

I want to know how I’m doing and contributing. If anyone says they don’t… they’re lying.

I was in the Spurs team and in the Ireland team when I got it and I admit it took its toll on me when I came back. But look, there were many, many people worse off than me.

People have just got to do it themselves in their own minds, believe when they get the chance they are going to score. You have to have no doubt about it at all.

I was at Hibs and I didn’t enjoy it that much but I had to live on my own, fend for myself and I learned how to do that.

I under-performed, I realize that.

I feel embarrassed at times when I come off the pitch because we are losing games and not scoring goals and conceding goals. It’s not nice.

You can be 19 or 20 and playing reserve team football, be able to say ‘I played at,’ say, ‘Manchester United,’ even though you have no actual first team appearances. But there are 19- and 20-year-olds at League Two level with 100 appearances under their belts. I know which one I’d rather be.

There will be players that I’ve never played against, it will be interesting to see how I get on.

I just played well and that gave me confidence.

Teams go behind in games all the time.

It’s up to me to find a way to bring out my best game when I put on the Ireland jersey.

It’s kind of depressing. A double relegation is something a few of us have – and we don’t want it on our CV’s.

I can’t just rot away… If I stay at Wolves obviously I have to play.

On a Wolves front, Premier League football is the big aim.

At Wolves I just had all the experiences – disappointment and then obviously getting promoted and stuff like that, but then taking it to the next level and getting into Europe as well.

At 15 or 16 I had been to 12 or 13 clubs.

I used to sit next to Danny Batth in the changing room and he was vegan. I thought, maybe I’ll try it. I got leaner and I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been.

I just felt I needed to be in the best shape possible.

Growing up I always wanted to play in the Premier League and now I get to resume living my dream, which is playing games and I can’t wait to get back.

In the stadium when you’re playing, you feel the negative vibe going around for not playing the ball forward, or for not pressing.

You can see it in games with Moutinho, he never panics on the ball and makes the right decision pretty much every time.

I was at 14 or 15 different clubs when I was younger, and I didn’t play that well when I was away. I would readily admit that now, there was a lot of disappointment as a kid.

I used to not eat that well. I would have microwaveable dinners, like pasta. It was mixed in with your fizzy drinks and sweets. No good.

I had the confidence, I knew I was able to play at this level. And I just took that forward.

Obviously, as defenders, we can see the game in front of us, so a lot of it is just communicating with people and just backing each other.