Eric Cantona Quotes

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

I don't care about the past.

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

I didn't study; I live.

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

I always wanted to play against the best.

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

I think life is a big game we play.

You are constantly battling against your own weaknesses to make a good performence.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.

Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.

I don't take life so seriously I can just play with life.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

I don't know where my medals are.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

Football lost its excitement for me.

With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.

When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

In England, your life is your life.

Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.