Eric Cantona Quotes (30 Quotes)


    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.

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

    Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.


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


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

    I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

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

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

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

    Fowler was so good at 18, and four, five years later, at 23 or 24, finished, not even for England, not even for the best teams. Finished. Completely. Out. Why

    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.

    This is quite an elitist film and I'm not sure that every Manchester United fan would like it. It's not an action movie that you might go to to relax.

    I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

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

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

    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.

    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 love Rooney as a player. But I am a bit worried. Rooney can become the best player in the world at 25, 26, if he knows that in football you need to be strong, train hard, go to bed early, be careful what you are eating, what you are drinking, what you do in life.

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

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

    It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

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

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

    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.

    Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

    Not really. I watched some Chelsea games and I don't really like the way they play.

    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.

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


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