153 Quotes by Matt Doherty

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.

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 playing that well so far but, hopefully, I can turn that around.

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.

I've survived a lot of managers, so I must have been doing something right.

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.

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.

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 left school to go to so many trials. There was no point in me going to school because I was away all the time.