I started to play, like all kids do, not as a goalkeeper. I liked scoring goals; in the end, it's all about scoring goals.
I find it difficult to imagine Juventus and Italy without Buffon. He is an incredible personality and has had an exceptional career.
From close range the free-kick is taken with inside of the foot. I will take a run-up of two or three steps and take the kick with the inside of the foot and the ball will travel in a straight line towards the goal. If it is a long-range free-kick, then I will use the outside of my foot. The ball will turn in the air and head towards the goal.
Why did I choose to be a goalkeeper? I don't know - it is good question. I have asked myself many times when things have not being going well.
The key for me is to score goals and win trophies.
Some young players think that they want to be like Manuel Neuer.
You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.
I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.
I am obviously a striker who likes to score a lot of goals and have done that in every team I have been with.
Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.
I used to watch Beckham and Andrea Pirlo. Players like that, they had a fantastic right foot on them; everyone knows that.
Sometimes, if a striker is not scoring as many goals, they can still be in good form.
As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.
Ronaldo is brilliant, Messi more my kind of player. He sees the game so clearly. He can score, create; he's the complete player - the best ever, probably.
As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.
I love Messi with the ball at his feet: he scores goals and does all the rest, too. But Cristiano's numbers can't be ignored. It's a cruel comparison. Both of them deserve respect.
Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.
It doesn't matter how many goals you score; one goal is enough if you don't let one in your net.
I'm at my most comfortable out on the pitch when I'm in front of goal with the ball at my feet. It's about being used to certain situations, and with time, you will find, chances don't get snatched at.
What's mostly left after a match? The scenes in front of the goal where the attackers are the highlights of the play. But doing the spectacular is not particularly important to me. I just want to play for my team.
I think it's very useful when you want to be the team who create. You need to create this superiority at the back when you build up using the goalkeepers.
The World Cup is a competition in which everything needs to work to your advantage. Players need to be fit, decisions have to go in your favour, and details such as a red card can cost a team dearly.
I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal. There've been times when I could have scored myself, but I've played a pass to a team-mate instead.
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
