Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Doherty - Page 2

My mam is Dutch but I'm green.

The main position is where you want to play.

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.

Yes, I might have been the only person to have been with two teams that have gone down in the one season.

I always wear a mask if I'm going to the shops.

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.

I haven't been hung up on the international scene, I'm not sitting there waiting on the Ireland squad to be announced to see if I am in it.

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

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

Teams go behind in games all the time.

It was great just to get Wolves training kit on and feel normal again.

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

I didn't train with a mask. There's no way they will be able to make everybody wear masks once they're playing and training flat out. It's impossible.

The step up from the Championship is really big and at the beginning I had a few performances that weren't great.

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

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

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

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

As a player I have to be ultra-careful, especially in supermarkets. How often does somebody pick up something, realize they don't want it and put it back for someone else to touch. So yes, I put my mask and gloves on to be safe because you don't want to get ill, do you?

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

I under-performed, I realize that.

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.

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.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter who plays once we win the game, that's the most important thing.

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

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.

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

1-0 is not a scary scoreline at all.

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.

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

You can be as good as you want but if someone likes a different player for whatever reason you have to respect that and hope eventually you get the chance and then take it and stay there.

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

If you're not playing, you're probably trying to find excuses when it's probably your fault.

I've never been in a major competition. If you don't want to be there, you might as well leave now because it would be crazy to not want to be playing in Dublin at a Euros.

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.