Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Doherty
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
You want to play as many games as possible, you want to stay sharp, and there is nothing like game fitness.
In the stadium when you're playing, you feel the negative vibe going around for not playing the ball forward, or for not pressing.
Obviously, it's not the same when you play at wing-back. You don't have to defend as much. You don't get exposed in defensive situations as much as when playing as a full-back, so it is definitely different, but it is not something that it is totally alien to me.
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.
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.
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.
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 just have to put even more focus and concentration in for 90 minutes and try to be mistake-free, while also expressing myself in the offensive parts of the field.
It's up to me to find a way to bring out my best game when I put on the Ireland jersey.
You could say I've not been the same player for Ireland as I have in the Premier League.
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.
There have been a lot of ups and downs.
You still have your own pride, your own personal pride. You can still work hard and get around the pitch.
My international career hasn't kicked off quite as much as I'd have liked it.
It's hard to put your shoulders back and say, 'right lads, let's win this game,' when we're not actually winning anything.
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 have to see the situations in games, you can't just rely on other people to do it.
I just didn't play. It's not the end of the world. You've got to respect the 11 that go out.
I want to know how I'm doing and contributing. If anyone says they don't... they're lying.
I haven't been playing that well so far but, hopefully, I can turn that around.
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.
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?'
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.
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 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've got Spurs gear on - that's all I care about.
It's never nice to lose 3-0 and have the ball knocked round you a bit towards the end.
I started working for my dad - he had his own company in carpet upholstery cleaning. I was doing whatever he said. It was hard work, it made me grow up and realize that it's not what I wanted to do.
I've survived a lot of managers, so I must have been doing something right.
I'm just a confident player.
I've not played that much, obviously, and I want to play as much as I can.
As players you want to be able to go out there and perform for your country and give people good things to write about.
You have to try and take games by the scruff of the neck... you can't mollycoddle everyone.
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!
When you were away with Ireland, you didn't really have that much coaching. It was more of five-a-side, or 11-a-side game, and that would be it.
Whenever I say anything, I don't lie.
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.
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 always back myself and I'm quite comfortable to be able to change from right-back to left-back.
It's tough, it's not a nice feeling playing in all these games and not scoring any goals.
I've been going absolutely insane! I've two kids, two-and-a-half and one-and-a-half at home.
I always feel that I can make a difference; that I can help if I'm on the pitch.
If you ask me a question... I'm not a liar so I'm not going to try and get out of the question. I just answer it.
I just played well and that gave me confidence.
I just felt I needed to be in the best shape possible.
I've got quite big legs.
I don't play right wing now but I am up and down the right wing a lot at club football. I know it would be a lot different but when I was younger I played there so I don't think I'd be uncomfortable playing there.
It gives you a better chance of playing if you can play a number of positions.
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 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.
Playing 90 minutes, you're absolutely shattered afterwards.
You have to be a bit ruthless, to be ultra-focused all the time. At the end of the day we're not playing kids football, we have to learn ourselves and go out with full focus and be men, to take it on.
It is impossible to be social distancing while playing football.
My time at Wolves was fantastic, I haven't got a bad word to say about the whole club at all.
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.
It's one of the worst things in our profession, being on the bench. The only worse thing is being injured.
There are things I need to improve on and things I need to adapt to.
Whenever a ball is played backwards, make the right decision, back a player to pick you out, so there a lot of ways players can take responsibility on the pitch.
When people lose their jobs in this day and age, you are never really too surprised.
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.
