Eric Cantona
Eric Cantona
Éric Daniel Pierre Cantonais a French actor and former international footballer for the French national team. He played for Auxerre, Martigues, Marseille, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nîmes and Leeds United before ending his career at Manchester United where he won four Premier League titles in five years and two League and FA Cup Doubles...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth24 May 1966
CityMarseille, France
CountryFrance
A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.
Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
Become a legend? But I am already.
I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.
Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but both have a lot of humanity and a lot of humility. They always give you the energy... with Ferguson when we played a game it was like it was his first game - he's so passionate and gives you ambition every time. And Ken works the same way - they're very similar.
My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
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.
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.
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.