Eric Cantona Quotes

As a player, I don't want to come off the field.

You feel many things during a match. There are things that annoy you. During important games, I do not always touch the ball a lot.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.

I'm a lot more comfortable on the field than I am talking in front of a crowd.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.

I'm not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn't have the confidence to play shows.

I'm not a natural performer: I have a natural stage fright.

In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.

I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

I'm confident as hell when I step in front of the mic.

I played shows in front of like 25, 50 people, and it's a lot harder to do your thing in front of a crowd that's small.

I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage fright and felt quite ill, in fact, by the time I had to give my little talk to students in another class across the hall.

Going out to play a game in front of 100,000 spectators doesn't worry me. Nothing to it.