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
I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing
If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
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.
After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from the 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.
Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.
I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
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.
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.
We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.
Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.
I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.