Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Cantona

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French actor Eric Cantona.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona is a French actor, director, producer, and former professional footballer. Often regarded as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Cantona is credited as having played a key role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing force in the 1990s and having an iconic status at the club. A large, physically strong, hard-working, and tenacious player, Cantona combined technical skill and creativity with power and goalscoring ability. Widely occupied as a deep–lying forward, he was also capable of playing as a centre-forward, as an out–and–out striker, as an attacking midfielder, or as a central midfielder on occasion.

French - Actor | Born: May 24, 1966

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

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It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

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

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I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

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

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

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I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I have a car but it's not important.

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Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

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I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

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

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I always wanted to play against the best.

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

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You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

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Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.

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I apologize for nothing.

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

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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.

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

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Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

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I don't know where my medals are.

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

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I didn't study; I live.

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

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

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I don't care about the past.

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

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I want to look forward.

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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

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I have great memories.

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

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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.

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Football lost its excitement for me.

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

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I live to feel myself in danger.

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

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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.

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Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

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In England, your life is your life.

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

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

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

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