Quotes from Matt Doherty

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

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 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.

It's tough, it's not a nice feeling playing in all these games and not scoring any goals.

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.

Playing 90 minutes, you're absolutely shattered afterwards.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

You could say I've not been the same player for Ireland as I have in the Premier League.

When people lose their jobs in this day and age, you are never really too surprised.

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