Eric Cantona Quotes

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

Eric Cantona

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Involved
  • Gym Class

• September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Life
  • History
  • Day

• I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Playing
  • Because
  • Tennessee

• I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Teaching
  • Without
  • Pity

• I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Know
  • Said

• I shop more than most women.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Women
  • More
  • Most

• The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Future
  • Lies

• Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

  

  Mahavira
  • Laws
  • Infinite
  • Modes

• Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Tennis

• We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.

  

  Ma Long
  • Up
  • Team
  • Lost

• Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Work
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • House
  • Colors
  • Soothing

• One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Important
  • Children
  • Parents

• If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Think
  • You
  • Impossible

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Hand

• Every season I am inspired by women.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Season

• Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Long
  • Country
  • Business

• Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Music

• I remember being in high school, and you had to draw those lines and define yourself. I don't think when I was in high school I would have been willing to admit that I liked the Shins. I was into TSOL and Black Flag. I probably would have listened to the Shins secretly in my bedroom.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • School
  • Remember
  • High

• Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

  

  Plato
  • Consider
  • Encouragement
  • Blamed

• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  

  Elizabeth Hardwick
  • World
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

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

  

  Eric Cantona