Eric Cantona

Actor

86 Quotes

I have a car but it's not important.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

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

I try to be honest.

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

Football lost its excitement for me.

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

Every experience makes you a man.

I'm never bored.

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

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

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

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

Great businessmen are creators.

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

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.

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.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

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

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

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