Eric Cantona Quotes

• 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.

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

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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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• Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

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• I didn’t study; I live.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

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

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• 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.

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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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• 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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Eric Cantona (25)

Birth:	24th May, 1966
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Actor, Football Player

About

Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona was born in Marseille, France. He is a French actor and former international footballer. 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. Following his retirement from football in 1997, he took up a career in cinema and had a role in the 1998 film Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, the 2008 film French Film, and the 2009 film Looking for Eric.

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