I don't watch penalties in my hotel room. I watch naughty videos

You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.

On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.

My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.

In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.

When you have the chance to play a Champions League final, you have to win it.

It's fine to admit being nervous - after the event. But if you tell people you're uptight before the game, it can be like, 'That guy's got problems. We can't trust him.'

Maybe I'm the only footballer who isn't interested in cars. My Lancia Y gets me around.

I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatmate would react.

Humanity need not be taught in schools, it is a gift and skill one should master.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

I feel like the worst fashion moments of the '90s were kind of the best.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.