Top 100 Eric Cantona Quotes
#1. Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
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#3. I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
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#5. The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.
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#6. Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.
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#7. Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.
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#8. In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
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#9. A good goal is one that is important and beautiful.
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#11. The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.
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#12. Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.
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#16. A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.
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#17. The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
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#18. Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#22. I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.
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#24. I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
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#25. When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
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#26. I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.
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#27. 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.
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#28. We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
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#29. 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.
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#31. It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.
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#32. I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.
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#33. 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.
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#34. My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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#35. If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
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#36. 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.
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#37. It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.
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#38. I don't take life so seriously ... I can just play with life.
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#39. I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing
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#40. I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.
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#42. I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.
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#46. 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.
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#47. You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.
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#48. 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.
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#50. Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.
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#54. You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.
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#56. You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
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#57. I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.
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#58. When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
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#60. 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.
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#61. I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.
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#62. I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
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#63. I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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#69. 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.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.
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#73. I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.
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#74. 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.
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#75. It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
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#76. An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.
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#77. I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.
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#78. Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
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#79. I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.
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#80. The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
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#81. I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.
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#82. I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
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#84. He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
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#85. We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.
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#87. I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.
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#88. Those who hate or disrespect Sir Alex Ferguson , its only because he snatched away their dreams of winning.
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#90. I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.
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#92. Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.
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#93. 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.
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#94. When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'
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#95. 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.
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#96. On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
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#97. 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.
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#99. My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan
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#100. I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
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