Quotes By Eric Cantona

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

I don't know where my medals are.

I have great memories.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

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

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

Great businessmen are creators.

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

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

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

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

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

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

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

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

Every experience makes you a man.