Buffon Quotes

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

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

“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.'”

“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.”

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

“Montesquieu had the style of a genius Buffon the genius of style.”

“Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.”

“Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.”

“The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.”

“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them.”