Eric Cantona Quotes

I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.

We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but both have a lot of humanity and a lot of humility. They always give you the energy... with Ferguson when we played a game it was like it was his first game - he's so passionate and gives you ambition every time. And Ken works the same way - they're very similar.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

Great businessmen are creators.

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

A good goal is one that is important and beautiful.

I apologize for nothing.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

Every experience makes you a man.

I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.

I have a car but it's not important.

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

Become a legend? But I am already.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

I live to feel myself in danger.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.