Quotes from Eric Cantona

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

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

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.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

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

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

I think life is a big game we play.

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

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

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

I want to look forward.

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

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

In England, your life is your life.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

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.

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.

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

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

I try to be honest.

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.