Quotes from Eric Cantona

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.

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

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.

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

I have great memories.

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

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

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

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

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

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

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

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

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

I always knew I had to work hard.

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.

I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

I didn't study; I live.

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

I have a car but it's not important.