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Eric Cantona [1966-0] French

Rank: 101
Athlete, Actor

Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona is 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.

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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.		101
Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.		102
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.		103
It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.		104
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.	Best	105
Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.		106
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.		107
I live to feel myself in danger.		108
He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.		109
I have great memories.		110
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.		111
My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.		112
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.	Death	113
On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.		114
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.		115
We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.		116
Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.		117
Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.		118
I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.		119
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.		120
I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.		121
If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.		122
We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.		123
I didn't study; I live.		124
I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.		125
I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.		126
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.		201
I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.		202
You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.		203
I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.		204
We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.		205
When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'		206
I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.		207
Great businessmen are creators.		208
I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.		209
Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.		210
Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.		211
Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.		212
I don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life.		213
Football lost its excitement for me.		214
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.		215
I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.		216
I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.		217
I don't care about the past.		218
I don't know where my medals are.		219
It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.		220
The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.		221
The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.		222
I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.		223
I apologize for nothing.		224
I think life is a big game we play.		225
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.		226
I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.		301
You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.		302
We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.		303
My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.		304
I have a car but it's not important.	Car	305
I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.		306
Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.		307
I observe the world and the people surrounding me.		308
A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.		309
It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.		310
I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.		311
Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.		312
I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.		313
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.		314
I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.		315
You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.		316
In England, your life is your life.		317
I want to look forward.		318
I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.		319
I don't want to go to Hollywood.		320
I try to be honest.		321
When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.		322
I always wanted to play against the best.		323
What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.		324
I always knew I had to work hard.		325
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.		326
I'm never bored.		401
Every experience makes you a man.		402
Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.		403
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.		404
I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.		405
Desire is important.		406
I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.		407
For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.		408

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