Motivation Quote by Eric Cantona

Cantona’s line lands because it’s half confession, half correction - a man famous for playing on the edge insisting the edge isn’t the point. “Submerged” is doing heavy lifting: emotion isn’t a spice here, it’s a flood. You don’t steer it so much as survive it. That framing quietly redeems volatility as human, not monstrous, while still acknowledging the danger of being overtaken.

Then comes the pivot: expression is “very important,” but expression isn’t synonymous with impact. Cantona is separating release from harm, a distinction sports culture often blurs. In hyper-competitive arenas, aggression gets repackaged as passion, and violence as authenticity. He’s pushing back on that myth without sounding like a scold. The parenthetical - “which doesn’t necessarily mean hitting someone” - carries a deadpan wit that reads like someone who’s heard every excuse and is tired of the same old script.

The context matters: this is Cantona, the player whose legend includes not just brilliance but an infamous outburst. Spoken from that history, the quote becomes a self-aware reframing: the problem was never feeling too much; it was lacking a vocabulary for it. It’s also a comment on masculinity’s narrow toolkit, especially in football, where emotions are permitted mainly as domination or silence. Cantona offers a third option: feel it fully, name it, channel it - and don’t pretend your fists are a form of honesty.