Eric Cantona Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Eric Cantona:
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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When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'
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I don't know where my medals are.
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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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Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.
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I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.
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Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.
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I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
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A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.
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I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.
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I don't want to go to Hollywood.
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I don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life.
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I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.
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I apologize for nothing.
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Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.
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I have great memories.
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I'm never bored.
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We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.
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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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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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My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.
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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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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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Great businessmen are creators.
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The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.
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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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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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Desire is important.
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We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.
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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.
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I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.
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I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.
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I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
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I always wanted to play against the best.
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I live to feel myself in danger.
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I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.
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He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
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It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.
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When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
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I think life is a big game we play.
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I want to look forward.
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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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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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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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Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
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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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We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
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Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
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I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.
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I didn't study; I live.
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You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
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I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.
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I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.
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In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
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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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Every experience makes you a man.
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I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.
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In England, your life is your life.
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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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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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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Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
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I have a car but it's not important.
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If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
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I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
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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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The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
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I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.
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I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
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You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.
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The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
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I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.
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I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.
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I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.
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You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.
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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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I try to be honest.
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Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
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I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.
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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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Football lost its excitement for me.
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I don't care about the past.
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I always knew I had to work hard.
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