Gianluigi Buffon Quotes

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

As a goalkeeper, you've got to have mental toughness, and that's one thing I'm good at.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.

You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.

I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.

After I make some bad shots, it makes me bear down and concentrate more.

It is important to have the attitude and self confidence to be Barca's goalkeeper, and that I've got.

I think the most important asset to kicking is being mentally headstrong.

I don't go crazy when I don't have my best game and say: 'Oof, I've lost my chance, I'm not going to play again.'

You've just got to play yourself at the end of the day - just try and keep to your game, keep focused and if you can do that, you've got a good chance of beating anyone.

When I got into this sport, I thought all I had to do was beat people and finish fights, and everything else would take care of itself.

People didn't question my knowledge, my throwing ability or athleticism; they questioned my ability to stand in and take a hit. So to be able to answer those questions on a week-to-week basis has been pretty cool.

Being an instinctive player is great but there's time in the past where I've let how I'm playing at the time affect me, thinking I can play some big shots and I'd be alright.

In golf, you're more competing with yourself.

I'm more of a player that listens and focuses on myself in the dressing room; I don't talk much before the matches.

You can't be an athlete and doubt yourself.

As a pitcher, you can't afford to get too ticked off.

I just have to continue to prepare and try to be the best guy I can be every Sunday, whether that's coming off a good game or a bad game.

Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.

Just focus on doing what you love to do and play your best game. Get your qualities out of the pitch, enjoy your game and don't think about the other things.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.