Eric Cantona quotes

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

#Football #Team #Wife

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

#Alex #Ferguson #May

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

#Sports #Recycling #Moments

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

#Motivational #Soccer #Passion

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

#Beautiful #Goal #Important

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

#Dream #Hate #Winning

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

#Love You #Names #Proud

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

#Team #Wings #Heaven

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

#Motivational #Soccer #Being Yourself

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

#Football #Done #Excited

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

#Sports #Thinking #Sea

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

#Soccer #Balls

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

#Stronger #World #Manchester United

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

#Football #Insane #Youth

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

#Careers #Pinnacle #Manchester United

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

#Soccer #Passion #People

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

#Football #Real #Games

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

#Mean #Talking #People

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

#Struggle #Champion #World

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

#Men #Proud #Rich

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

#Soccer #Football #Cinema

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

#Children #Authenticity #Sincerity

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

#People #Sometimes #Photograph

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
-- Eric Cantona

#People #World

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

#Soccer #Two #Goal

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

#Reality #Way #Enlightening

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

#People #Different #World

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

#Winning #Play

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

#Football #Wanted #Stills

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

#Soccer #Beach #Winning

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

#Able #Privilege #Lucky

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

#Team #Thinking #Long

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

#Team #Save Me

I apologize for nothing.
-- Eric Cantona

#Apologizing #I Apologize

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

#Memories #Proud #Be Proud

I always knew I had to work hard.
-- Eric Cantona

#Hard Work

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Football

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

#Soccer #Eye #Dark

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

#Mother #Father #Parent

Become a legend? But I am already.
-- Eric Cantona

#Legends

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

#Sports #Succeed #Spontaneity

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

#Team #Fighting #Play

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

#Hollywood #Want

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

#Passing #Difficult #Passings

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

#Team #Ideas #Play

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

#Crazy #Different #Norm

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.
-- Eric Cantona

#Dark #Artist #Light

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

#Needs #Want #Talent

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

#Football #Paradise #England

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

#Technique #Forget

I always wanted to play against the best.
-- Eric Cantona

#Play #Wanted

Football lost its excitement for me.
-- Eric Cantona

#Football #Excitement #Lost

Great businessmen are creators.
-- Eric Cantona

#Businessman #Creator #Great Businessman

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

#Medal

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

#Games #People #Needs