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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 / Soccer Player
Dying
Enjoy Life
Everyone Else
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On any longball, people try to outjump each other. I don't mind a big jump, but to be honest, the only thing you have to do is fight for the spot where the ball is going to land.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Honest
Ball
Spot
Jump
The Only Thing
To Be Honest
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I just enjoy training. I enjoy being there, enjoy coming into games and training sessions where I can feel that I'm as good or better than the players I have to play against or with.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Being There
Good Better Feel
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I've received much from Manchester - a great career at the highest level, unconditional support from the fans through thick and thin, a lovely family, and so much more to be grateful for.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Family
Be Grateful
Fans
Grateful
Lovely
Manchester
Support
Thick
Unconditional
Career
Family Great Support
Highest Level
Received
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I love the derby because of the banter and rivalry. If you live outside of Manchester, you can take it out of context sometimes, where you can think it's all hate, and I don't think it is.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Derby
Manchester
Rivalry
Context
Love Hate Live
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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 / Soccer Player
Me Way Always
Manager
Sees
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It doesn't take a lot to imagine what City means to me: it's been my life for the last almost ten years now. I'm grateful for what the club has given me, and I've given everything to the club.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Life City Me
Ten Years
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It's funny: one of the strongest parts of my game today is heading, and that only really developed when I started playing at the professional level. In the youth teams, all we did was passing.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Passing
Heading
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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 / Soccer Player
Adopted
Manchester
Problem
Three
Address
Anything Else
City
Grown
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I'll be connected with City for the rest of my life - as a fan, as an employee, as an ambassador. Whatever City decide or I decide, it's not something we can undo. We're tied to each other for life.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Tied
Life City My Life
Ambassador
Undo
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One thing I am sure about Manchester is that people are proud of their history. They are proud of their football, music, the industrial revolution, and all the amazing things that were invented here.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Amazing Things
Industrial Revolution
Manchester
Revolution
Industrial
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Belgium's 1986 team is like the Christmas movie that they bring out every single year. That World Cup is something we get to see and hear about all the time. It is part of our general education in Belgium.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Belgium
World Cup
Cup
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Knife crime isn't an issue that's going to go away just because of repression and police action. Of course we need to support the forces, but it's linked to prevention, and prevention often comes through education.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Linked
Repression
Go Away
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I was desperate to leave Hamburg. The club was awesome, don't get me wrong, but I had a personal issue with one of the board members. He was desperate to get me out. The first club came calling, and it was Man City.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Desperate
Awesome
Board
Hamburg
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I find football much more powerful than what grown-ups want it to be. It's a community to me; it's something very meaningful in the life of many, many people and especially the youth. And, therefore, I think it can bring social cohesion.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Cohesion
Meaningful
Grown-Ups
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The goal, being bold about it, is to stop homelessness in Manchester. I've been in this community for 11 years now - my wife Carla is from Manchester, the kids are Mancs, born and bred - so homelessness is not an issue we can shy away from.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Homelessness
Manchester
Bold
Bred
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I remember always going to the train station where I grew up, and on the wall was written, 'The real wealth of a nation is diversity of cultures.' Where I grew up, that's what I saw, and that's what I believe in as well - and I still believe it.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Believe I Believe Always
Cultures
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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 / Soccer Player
Breakdown
Guarantees
Streets
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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.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Centre
Setting
Time World Me
Time Where World
Bloke
Targets
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I think that's the reason why I'm proud to play for Belgium - because I can take ownership. I'm not saying that I'm not proud of being Congolese as well - but I'm saying this is also my country, and anything that happens in my country, I want to have a say.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Belgium
Ownership
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I'm someone who takes on information quite well, so there's maybe a path into management. But I see what successful managers have to go through to get to that level - it's a completely different ball game - so I think I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Management
Managers
Ball Game
Bridge
Cross
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The main thing for me is to consider sport at an equal level as you would consider mathematics or poetry at school. It's another place where you can send your kids; they can have fun, but you can expect them to have good teachers, and you can expect them to progress.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Good Teachers
Have Fun
Main Thing
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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 / Soccer Player
Hardest Thing
Hunger
Titles
Life Yourself Day
Challenged
Every Single Day
Single Day
The Hardest Thing
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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 / Soccer Player
Being Ignored
Fall
Good Things
Ignored
Long Time
Talent
Time Good Long
Unfortunately
Grid
Happening
Neighbourhood
Notice
Very Long Time
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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.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Ill
Abroad
Time Strength Always
Time Strength Me
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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.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Charity
Charity Work
Different Things
Priorities
Life Family Work
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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 / Soccer Player
Young Players
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I will say it loud and clear: at Manchester City, it is all about what you choose to look at. If you look at the money spent on players, you will only ever see that side of City. If you look at the bigger plan, which is investment in the community, facilities, and youth teams, you realise there is heart and soul in this club.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Heart And Soul
Investment
Loud
Manchester
Facilities
Realise
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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 / Soccer Player
Coffee
Discussion
Massive
Next Thing
Training Ground
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What annoys me most is it is so easy to focus on negatives all the time. All you hear is a lot of people - whether it is industry leaders or politicians - complaining about everything. I don't deny things are not always perfect, but the stage it gets is huge compared with the simple things that make people happy, like winning a football match.
Vincent Kompany / Soccer Player
Complaining
Deny
Football Match
Simple Things
Annoys
Time Focus Always
Compared
Negatives
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