Quotes by Eric Cantona - Page 2

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Advance
Lose Win Know
Prefer
Win
Lose
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I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Fulfilled
Millions
Watched
Millions Of People
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I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Memories
Achieved
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Aggression
Greed
Massive
Pressure
Affects
Seem
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It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.
Eric Cantona / Actor
France
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Good Moments
Prefer
Best Good Moment
Moment
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I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.
Eric Cantona / Actor
World People See
Uniform
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Sea
Seagull
Thrown
Because
Follow
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Sea
Seagull
Thrown
Will
Think
Because
Follow
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Zero
Critics
Needs
People
Afraid
Stay
Some People
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The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Afford
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I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Beach
Retired
Monte
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Abstract
My Own
Reality
Will
Am
Own
Forms
Enlighten
Expressing
Searching
Ways
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Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Emotion
Experiences
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I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Fascinated
Photograph
By The People
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Ordinary
Sand
Wicked
Sure
Shot
Take
Last
Moment
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Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Don't Care
Films
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I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Manchester
Manchester United
Pinnacle
Retire
Planned
Reached
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You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Change
Religion
Smile
Football
Humorous
Team
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It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Huge
Roof
People Live Find
Heads
Sacrifices
Unacceptable
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Interference
Our Lives
Too Much
Life Me Children
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Emotion
Hitting
Submerged
Express
Necessarily
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Destroyed
Banks
Revolves
System
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Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Surprise
Goalkeeper
Tried
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Stopped
Excite
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Certain
Desire
Order
Aching
Retire
Temptations
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Competition
Pressure
Remains
Rivalry
Within
Good Long People
Con
Good Long Competition
Good Thing
Marked
Spur
Teams
Themselves
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Activity
Dying
Exclusion
Pursue
Life Death Football
Everything Else
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Beach
Championship
Improving
September
Soccer
Winning
World Keep Better
Hard Part
French
Won
European
Title
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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.
Eric Cantona / Actor
Exist
Develop
Existing
Expressing
Interests
Sensation
Play Football
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