Eric Cantona Quotes About Football

Quotes about: Football

• You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

  Eric Cantona

  Change, Football, Team

• 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

  Football, Insane, Youth

  "They Said It: Eric Cantona". www.fifa.com. August 27, 2010.

• 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

  Football, Heart, Thinking

• Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Wanted, Stills

• 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.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Passion, Dying

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

• The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Real, Games

  "The awkward squad" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2009.

• 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

  Football, Done, Excited

• In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Football, Cinema

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

• When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Paradise, England

• 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

  Football, Kings, Crazy

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Eric Cantona

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

• When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.

  Eric Cantona

  Dream, Football, Children

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Tough, Stage

• Football lost its excitement for me.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Excitement, Lost

  "The king and I: meeting Eric Cantona". Interview with Julian Coman, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

• I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Beach, Games

• I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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