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

Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute.

Vincent Kompany

alex games years

Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.

Vincent Kompany

league football years

The biggest pass for a defender is a pass forward.

Vincent Kompany

biggest pass defender forward

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

Vincent Kompany

right feel strength long

I think people generally have a good heart and the intention to help.

Vincent Kompany

good good-heart heart people

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

good talent time long

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

Vincent Kompany

win you success war

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

enjoy-life sports life death

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

Vincent Kompany

perform story part you

Pep's tactical and technical assessments are like nothing I've ever seen before, and I think that's why people enjoy to see him fail.

Vincent Kompany

nothing think enjoy people

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

i-am music football history

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

professional me always football

A win is a win, whether you do it the difficult way or the easy way.

Vincent Kompany

win you easy way

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

Vincent Kompany

look you time football

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

yourself day you life

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

i-am myself support passion

Our generation has been described as a golden generation. I hate that term.

Vincent Kompany

generation been golden hate

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

me matter want way

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

city think me wife

We can't always wait on the government to sort out all issues. I think they set policies, they set the rules, but we all have a duty to help as much as we can.

Vincent Kompany

wait think duty government