Latest Eric Cantona Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

• 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

  Children, Teenage, Men

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

• 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.

• When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.

  Eric Cantona

  Opportunity, Who I Am, Two

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

• 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.

  Eric Cantona

  Ambition, Humility, Games

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

• With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written.

  Eric Cantona

  Dream, Brother, Names

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

• 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.