Quotes By Eric Cantona

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

I always wanted to play against the best.

I always knew I had to work hard.

In England, your life is your life.

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

I have a car but it's not important.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

I apologize for nothing.

I try to be honest.

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

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

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

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

I didn't study; I live.

I want to look forward.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I have great memories.

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.

I don't know where my medals are.

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

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

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

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.

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