Vincent Kompany Quotes

When City came calling, I researched the club, but when I first came through the door, it was weird: it was a big club but at the same time a small club.
When I read or study, I don't do it for the degree - if I fail, it doesn't matter, but it just takes me out of this world where you're the centre of attention all the time. You just become a normal bloke when you're setting yourself those kinds of targets.
When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was nothing they could relate to.
When I was a kid, it was very common to go places and get racially abused, starting from age six all the way up until you got into the first team.
When I was coming through, I had very little support from the older players. I always said to myself that if I make it, I never want to be that kind of person. I have a passion for seeing young players develop, so every young player who comes into the first team, I am willing to listen. I will give him everything I have.
When there's pressure on the ball, you can go man-to-man on your striker; you've got the advantage because the ball pressure means it'll be a difficult pass to play.
When you come so many times to the end of your career, you understand that you have to appreciate every moment. It's the story of life.
Whichever work you do, people go through life having several priorities. I know my football is what got me here. The work I do for SOS or my charity work in general has always been a priority for me, and then my family is a priority as well, so you set yourself different things, and they just balance each other out.
Within my first year of moving abroad living on my own, my sister got ill - she got cancer - and at the same time, my mum got cancer, and she passed away. I think at that time it was a hard challenge for me to deal with it, but in a way, I have always taken strength out of anything that has come at me.
You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.
You can't compare Barcelona and Bayern Munich to Manchester City.
You can't win every game playing fantasy football.
You win the mental war when you have success. You lose it when you don't have success.
Youth is always the future of any country.
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Vincent Kompany
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10 April, 1986
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