Cantona Soccer Quotes & Sayings

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

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb! — Berenice Marlohe

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much."
Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky. — George Eliot

You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you. — Julian B. Barbour

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

I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands. — William Powell

When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination. — Dezso Kosztolanyi

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long. — Stephen Sprouse

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

Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity. — Alex Grey

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

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters. — Carson McCullers

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. — Chinua Achebe

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

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

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself. — Brian Michael Bendis

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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