Sam Docherty
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273 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Sam Docherty’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Legend and author.
I wouldn't have thought they'd be two things that I'd have said about me.
Yeah.
So I got introduced.
Well, the idea came from speaking with my management company and I'm not eloquent enough to write the book.
So I was lucky enough to get partnered up with Conrad and Conrad Marshall.
And he did an amazing job of putting my thoughts and memories into words.
I love the way it's written.
He's done an outstanding job.
It's a full look through my life more than anything.
As much as there is a fair bit about footy, there's
There's a lot about life and the struggles that I went through and probably will resonate with a lot of people of the struggles that others have.
And I wrote it with the hope to help people as much as I'm telling stories about footy and injury and illness.
I hope someone reads it one day and can sit there and it might help them through some part of their journey.
Yeah, I think that's a true statement.
In terms of the physical nature of it, the week-to-week grind to get up for games and what you put your body through and what you play through, often I feel like everyone sits there and thinks that everyone's 100% and going, well, I reckon I've probably played about five games across my whole career where I felt good.
Yeah, this is all in the book.
I probably had 100 injections in my 180 games to be able to get through, to be able to play.
My body wasn't built for AFL footy.
So between trying to get up from little niggles, and I was one of those guys that kind of refused to say no to that my body was hurting and made sure I could get out there.
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