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• 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.
  • Buffon, as quoted in Football Italia (07/01/07)
• In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.
  • Gianluigi Buffon, as quoted in Football Italia (07/07/29)
• The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team.
  • Gianluigi Buffon, as quoted after Cagliari Calcio 2-3 Juventus FC. Stadio Sant'Elia di Cagliari, September 2, 2007]

About Gianluigi Buffon

• Gigi Buffon is in every way an original. His talent very quickly made him the number one of both Parma and Italy, whilst his personality, which is never banal, is characterised by great bravery both in his statements to the press and as he comes out to smother the ball at the feet of onrushing players
  • Leo Turrini

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• I would say that I am having less sex now that I’m playing in Serie B – there is more to think about in this division.
  • Buffon, as quoted in Football Italia.