Eric Cantona Quotes

As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

I remember being a young boy in Poland, watching David Seaman, Thierry Henry, Dennis Berkamp and others play for Arsenal. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would get a chance to play for the club I supported as a little kid.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of wearing the Selecao shirt in a World Cup.

At the end of the day, we love playing football, so that is the main thing. I am doing something that I really love to do. It is a job, but it is a hobby as well.

As a kid, you just want to play football. For me one day it will end, but until the end I love getting the opportunity to go out there and play at a high level.

When I was young, I always wanted to play in the Champions League.

To go out at Wembley and score is what you dream about as a kid.

When I was a little child, I watched every game in the Champions League, and now I can play it for myself.

My story is like many other stories. I started very young. As the years went by, I only cared about playing football. I was never obsessed with money or being a professional though.

The Champions League must not be an objective but instead a dream for us to pursue.

Playing in the Champions League is a big dream of mine. When you are a player and have a chance to play in it, it's a good thing.

I play this sport because I love football.

My dream is to play football as long as I can and that's what I want to do.

Being sporty at heart, I've wanted to learn football since I was a child. But I never got the chance because, growing up, my family didn't have the finances for extra-curricular activities.

My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me.

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.

While we're living the dreams we have as children fade away'. Not if you support United!

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life. When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much. I still have plenty of fight left in me.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you."