Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Cantona - Page 2

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

Desire is important.

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.

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

I'm never bored.

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

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.

I always knew I had to work hard.

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

Great businessmen are creators.

Every experience makes you a man.

I try to be honest.

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

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

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

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

I think life is a big game we play.

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.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

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

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 found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

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

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

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.

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

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.

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.

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

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.

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.

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Become a legend? But I am already.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.

Those who hate or disrespect Sir Alex Ferguson , its only because he snatched away their dreams of winning.

A good goal is one that is important and beautiful.

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.