A biography for Matt Dohertyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“It's up to me to find a way to bring out my best game when I put on the Ireland jersey.”
“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.”
“When people lose their jobs in this day and age, you are never really too surprised.”
“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 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.”
“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's never nice to lose 3-0 and have the ball knocked round you a bit towards the end.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm not playing for Wolves just so I can get in squads. I'm concentrated on playing for Wolves.”
“It's one of the worst things in our profession, being on the bench. The only worse thing is being injured.”
“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.”
“My mam is Dutch but I'm green.”
“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.”
“We know it is a results business, and also performance business. You have to perform well to get the results.”
“My international career hasn't kicked off quite as much as I'd have liked it.”