ERIC CANTONA

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

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.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

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.

I always knew I had to work hard.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

I try to be honest.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

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

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

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.

I didn't study; I live.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

In England, your life is your life.

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

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.

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

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

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.