Quotes & Sayings About Cantona

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. — Eric Cantona

Football lost its excitement for me. — Eric Cantona

I apologize for nothing. — Eric Cantona

Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs — Johan Cruijff

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

If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?' — Alex Ferguson

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

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. — Eric Cantona

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity. — Eric Cantona

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

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

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible. — Eric Cantona

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

I want to look forward. — Eric Cantona

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

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

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

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

After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from the 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. — Eric Cantona

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

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. — Eric Cantona

I have great memories. — Eric Cantona

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. — Eric Cantona

With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written. — Eric Cantona

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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

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

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays. — Eric Cantona

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

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

Eric likes
to do what he likes,
when he likes,
because he likes it -
and then fuck off.
We'd all want a bit of that. — Howard Wilkinson

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard. — Eric Cantona

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

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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

A good goal is one that is important and beautiful. — Eric Cantona

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

I live to feel myself in danger. — Eric Cantona

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

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

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

I don't know where my medals are. — Eric Cantona

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. — Eric Cantona

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

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment. — Eric Cantona

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

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

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

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

I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch. — Ronaldinho

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. — Eric Cantona

I have a car but it's not important. — Eric Cantona

Desire is important. — Eric Cantona

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

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

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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. — Eric Cantona

Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world. — Eric Cantona

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

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. — Eric Cantona

I didn't study; I live. — Eric Cantona

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. — Eric Cantona

I try to be honest. — Eric Cantona

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

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics. — Eric Cantona

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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

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

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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. — Eric Cantona

In England, your life is your life. — Eric Cantona

Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word. — Barry Davies

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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. — Eric Cantona

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative. — Eric Cantona

I don't want to go to Hollywood. — Eric Cantona

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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

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. — Eric Cantona

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. — Eric Cantona

Great businessmen are creators. — Eric Cantona

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed. — Eric Cantona

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

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