Top 50 Eric Cantona Quotes

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

When you arrive in England for football it’s a paradise.

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.

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

You can lose in cinema too if you don’t put on a good performance.

In England, your life is your life.

We knew that you don’t get to be world champions without a struggle.

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

I always wanted to play against the best.

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

I didn’t study; I live.

Football lost its excitement for me.

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

I think life is a big game we play.

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

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

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It’s a massive pressure that affects us all.

I have to wear clothes but I don’t like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

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.

I don’t think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

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

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

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.

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

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

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

I think it’s better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

I don’t want to go to Hollywood.

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

I live to feel myself in danger.

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

I’m proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

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.

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

I have great memories.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

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

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.

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

I don’t know where my medals are.

I don’t care about the past.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don’t have this talent.

I apologize for nothing.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

Being on stage isn’t so tough compared to the football pitch.