Quotes by Eric Cantona

About Eric Cantona:

Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona is a French actor and former international footballer for the French national team. He played for Auxerre, Martigues, Marseille, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nîmes and Leeds United before ending his career at Manchester United where he won four Premier League titles in five years and two League and FA Cup Doubles.
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My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

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I always wanted to play against the best.

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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.

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Every experience makes you a man.

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

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

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I have a car but it's not important.

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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.

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The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I think life is a big game we play.

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I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

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

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In England, your life is your life.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameEric Cantona
  • DescriptionFrench actor and association football player
  • AliasesÉric Daniel Pierre Cantona
  • BornMay 24, 1966
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionAssociation Football Player; Actor