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.

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.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.