Eric Cantona Quotes

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  • I live to feel myself in danger.

    "The king and I: meeting Eric Cantona" by Julian Coman, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.
  • On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

  • I don't know where my medals are.

    "Attack on fan was a 'dream' for supporters, admits Eric Cantona" by Gregg Roughley, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.
  • I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

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

    "Switch review: Eric Cantona owns the screen in French thriller" by David Edwards, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2012.
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

    "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.
  • My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

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

  • 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.

    "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

    "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.
  • 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.

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

    "Eric Cantona arrested and cautioned after assault in London" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2014.
  • When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

  • 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.

    "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

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

    "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.
  • I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.

    "Quotes of the week". news.bbc.co.uk. December 6, 2005.
  • When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

  • I don't care about the past.

    "Attack on fan was a 'dream' for supporters, admits Eric Cantona" by Gregg Roughley, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.
  • I apologize for nothing.

    "The Gospel of Eric Cantona". Interview with David Hirshey, www.espn.com.
  • We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

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

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

  • Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

    "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.
  • 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.

    "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.
  • I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.

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    Eric Cantona

    • Born: May 24, 1966
    • Occupation: Actor