Top 60 Eric Cantona Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.”

— Eric Cantona

2. “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

3. “I’m just enjoying my life at the moment.”

— Eric Cantona

4. “I don’t play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing.”

— Eric Cantona

5. “Become a legend? But I am already.”

— Eric Cantona

6. “I think life is a big game we play.”

— Eric Cantona

7. “You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.”

— Eric Cantona

8. “When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.”

— Eric Cantona

9. “Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.”

— Eric Cantona

10. “Every experience makes you a man.”

— Eric Cantona

11. “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.”

— Eric Cantona

12. “An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.”

— Eric Cantona

13. “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

14. “I apologize for nothing.”

— Eric Cantona

15. “I always knew I had to work hard.”

— Eric Cantona

16. “Those who hate or disrespect Sir Alex Ferguson, its only because he snatched away their dreams of winning.”

— Eric Cantona

17. “Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn’t particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.”

— Eric Cantona

18. “You are constantly battling against your own weaknesses to make a good performence.”

— Eric Cantona

19. “I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will separate 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

20. “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

21. “When times are difficult, I tell myself, ‘I’m just passing through.’”

— Eric Cantona

22. “Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.”

— Eric Cantona

23. “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.”

— Eric Cantona

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

— Eric Cantona

25. “I’m lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.”

— Eric Cantona

26. “I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.”

— Eric Cantona

27. “I don’t think the world of football is so serious. It’s important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it’s a game and we all enjoy it together.”

— Eric Cantona

28. “I manage a team, for beach soccer. I’m the coach. Player, coach.”

— Eric Cantona

29. “You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don’t have this talent.”

— Eric Cantona

30. “I don’t think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.”

— Eric Cantona

31. “I don’t need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.”

— Eric Cantona

32. “I have a car but it’s not important.”

— Eric Cantona

33. “The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.”

— Eric Cantona

34. “Messi, he’s exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there’s a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He’s a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.”

— Eric Cantona

35. “Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It’s not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it’s also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.”

— Eric Cantona

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

— Eric Cantona

37. “I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.”

— Eric Cantona

38. “I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player’s creativity.”

— Eric Cantona

39. “We knew that you don’t get to be world champions without a struggle.”

— Eric Cantona

40. “Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it’s very important to express it – which doesn’t necessarily mean hitting someone.”

— Eric Cantona

41. “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.”

— Eric Cantona

42. “I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.”

— Eric Cantona

43. “My father’s parents were from Sardinia and my mother’s from Barcelona.”

— Eric Cantona

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

— Eric Cantona

45. “In England, your life is your life.”

— Eric Cantona

46. “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.”

— Eric Cantona

47. “I’m proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.”

— Eric Cantona

48. “I live to feel myself in danger.”

— Eric Cantona

49. “I don’t take life so seriously I can just play with life.”

— Eric Cantona

50. “I know that I have a face, a look, people aren’t used to seeing. A presence.”

— Eric Cantona