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

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

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

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.

Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel.

It does not strike me as a good thing that the only person we can be so, so close to is the person we're dating.

I was about as political as a bath towel.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

I never turned down a mother role.

The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial.

No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.