Best 84 quotes of Eric Cantona on MyQuotes

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

After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.

A good goal is one that is important and beautiful.

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

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

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

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

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

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

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.

Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but both have a lot of humanity and a lot of humility. They always give you the energy... with Ferguson when we played a game it was like it was his first game - he's so passionate and gives you ambition every time. And Ken works the same way - they're very similar.

Football lost its excitement for me.

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.

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

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

I apologize for nothing.

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

I don't care about the past.

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

I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.

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

I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

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

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.

I have a car but it's not important.

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

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

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

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think life is a big game we play.

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

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

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

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.

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

Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.