71 Quotes by Gianluigi Buffon

The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's like me giving an opinion on someone's job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.

Everyone gets scared from time to time. It's totally normal, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

In football, you win as a group, you lose as a group; you divide the credit and the blame.

Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.

If I do something, I do it with the idea to get to the top - without that, I would stop living.

I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to grow up and start taking life a bit more seriously, which had a huge impact on me. I suffered terrible anxiety, and sometimes, in the middle of a game, my legs would start shaking uncontrollably. It was pretty scary.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

I cannot appreciate anybody who creates controversy over things which do not exist. I can tolerate controversy over things which truly happened, but not over inexistent things.