Vincent Kompany Quotes

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

A game is not won until it is lost.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

We're not going to win every single one.

Preparing well for a tournament sometimes is not enough to win it as you also need a lot of luck in order to win.

I always say when the opponent was better.

It wouldn't be the worst thing if you don't play that well but take points.

You've always six teams who are trying to win the title, and the other five have failed. But by word of saying it, it's not failing; it's just the way it is. The last two years, we didn't win it, so it wasn't good enough, but if now we win it, the other teams will say the same.

Every down is important.

Each and every player wants to win every game, but that's simply not possible.

I've always reflected on the game.

If they don't score, we can't lose.

People lose games. You don't win them all.

You cannot win every year.

This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.

Every year that you enter this business and this game, the goal is the Super Bowl.

Sometimes you lose; that is football.

If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.

In football, you can't always succeed.

It's disappointing to lose a game with the chance to go into the semi-finals of the Champions League.

You never win the silver, you only lose the gold