I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win. Eric Cantona More Quotes by Eric Cantona More Quotes From Eric Cantona You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. Eric Cantona teamchangefootball When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart. Eric Cantona heartfootballthinking When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Eric Cantona soccersportsthinking I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing Eric Cantona teamplayideas You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson. Eric Cantona alexfergusonmay My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. Eric Cantona ancestorfighter An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity. Eric Cantona eyedarksoccer My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan. Eric Cantona recyclingmomentssports The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed. Eric Cantona soccer-loveballssoccer 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. Eric Cantona fansnameslove-you I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. Eric Cantona enlighteningrealityway I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm. Eric Cantona passionmotivationalsoccer Every experience makes you a man. Eric Cantona men It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible. Eric Cantona enjoyablevisibleinvisible Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life. Eric Cantona goalsoccertwo Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself. Eric Cantona being-yourselfmotivationalsoccer I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music. Eric Cantona youthinsanefootball After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God. Eric Cantona teamwingsheaven When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that. Eric Cantona who-i-amopportunitytwo It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English. Eric Cantona francewantcountry
