Quotes from Matt Doherty

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?'

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.

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.

You want to play as many games as possible, you want to stay sharp, and there is nothing like game fitness.

As players you want to be able to go out there and perform for your country and give people good things to write about.

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.

My time at Wolves was fantastic, I haven't got a bad word to say about the whole club at all.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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?

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.

It's one of the worst things in our profession, being on the bench. The only worse thing is being injured.

I've been going absolutely insane! I've two kids, two-and-a-half and one-and-a-half at home.