45 Vincent Kompany Quotes for You to Enjoy

Vincent Kompany

Belgian Athlete

Born: Apr 10, 1986

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As long as I feel that inner strength, I'll be all right. Vincent Kompany

Strength Long Feel Right Inner Inner Strength

There is a lot of talent and a lot of good things happening and coming from Molenbeek, but unfortunately, it has had to deal with a very, very long time of being ignored, really, and it was very easy, even in the neighbourhood where I grew up, to just fall off the grid, and nobody would notice it. Vincent Kompany

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You win the mental war when you have success. You lose it when you don't have success. Vincent Kompany

Success War You Win Lose Mental

Someone might come close to dying, and they'll enjoy life much more than everyone else. I came close to the death of my sports career, and I enjoy everything coming my way. Vincent Kompany

My mum was always more pushing me towards the academic side; she wasn't really interested in me having a professional football career. Vincent Kompany

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Football is so intense you don't have time to sit back and look at what you have achieved. Vincent Kompany

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Once you achieve a goal and you are on that high, you have to consciously pull yourself in to say, 'I need to have the same hunger and desire as when I had nothing.' That's the hardest thing to do in life. That is getting challenged every single day once you win titles. Vincent Kompany

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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. Vincent Kompany

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I want to be involved as a fan, as a player, as a manager, as a technical director, as a groundsman. It doesn't matter. Whichever way the club sees me helping them out, I'll always be around. Vincent Kompany

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I'm an adopted Mancunian. This city has grown on me. I have a wife from Manchester and have three kids who think they are more Mancuniuan than anything else, which is a problem I need to address! Vincent Kompany

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As wealthy as you are, nothing, nothing, nothing guarantees you that through a breakdown of relationship, your kids won't end up on the streets. It's nothing to do with wealth: sometimes it can be down to other things, like the breakdown of relationships. Vincent Kompany

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I remember having a discussion at some stage and saying a coffee machine would do well in the training ground. Everyone was like, 'No, in England, we drink tea.' I was like, 'OK, I was just saying that I think coffee works as well.' Next thing you know, after the international break, we had this massive coffee machine come in from Nespresso. Vincent Kompany

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