Eric Cantona Quotes

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

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

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

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

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

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

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

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

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

I always knew I had to work hard.

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

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

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

I didn't study; I live.

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

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

I live to feel myself in danger.

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

Football lost its excitement for me.

Become a legend? But I am already.

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

You are constantly battling against your own weaknesses to make a good performence.

Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.

Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

Great businessmen are creators.

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

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

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

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

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.

I don't know where my medals are.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

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

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

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

In England, your life is your life.

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.

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