Vincent Kompany Quotes

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

I have followed Newcastle my whole life. I had two Newcastle shirts when I was little. It was unusual; most people choose a team like Manchester United or Barcelona, but for me, it has always been Newcastle.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.

Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.

The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.

I want one thing I can point to and say, 'that is good, and it's a part of me.'

I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's why I kind of - I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that's where I felt at home.

I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.

You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk.

I feel like clothing is very much emotional, you know?

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

I'm going to always be a Sixer til I die.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am

Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.

No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.