Gianluigi Buffon Quotes

What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.

It's not easy, but I play with my body, and I can feel how important it is to get 100 percent fit to play. This is an important thing to play in the Premier League.

I want to play until I'm 38.

As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.

Physically I was not strong enough to play at Celtic and I know myself it was not my best time as a football player, for sure.

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

You have to be that 1 percent or 2 percent better physically so you have more power and energy left than your opponent when you go to a third set.

As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.

I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

The NBA is 95% mental and 5% physical, so it's more in my favor now with me being older.

Every time an older player gets toward the end of their career, they're always talking about 'I feel better now than I did 10 years ago.'

The footballer's career is very long and staying on the top for many years is always very difficult.

I was always into sports, and as a sportsperson, you need to be fit to survive and play from start to finish.

Hopefully I can play until I'm 40.

Being stronger really helped my game.

Always that's a goal with everybody who plays a pro sport is to get stronger and faster and work on things that you lack.

Whether it's in the weight room or extra stretching, you never know when you're going to need that little extra oomph.

I couldn't change the fact that I did my ACL, but I could control how I reacted to it. That's what I focused on, becoming stronger mentally and physically.

There are a lot of men playing great tennis well into their thirties.

I should say that mental strength is No. 1, experience [is] No. 2, physical strength is No. 3, and genetic ability that you're getting from Mother Nature probably comes after.

I want to continue to expand my game a little more, build my body and work on staying strong so I can play the way I've been playing, and holding my ground the way I've been holding my ground.