Quotes By Eric Cantona

We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.

I have a car but it's not important.

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

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

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

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

I don't care about the past.

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

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

Desire is important.

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.

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.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

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

I'm never bored.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

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

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.

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

I live to feel myself in danger.

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.

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.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

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

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.

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.