Quotes from Paolo Maldini

I did boxing for three years, and that was very nice. It's a hard but great, great sport. I really love the training aspect of it.

I got the chance to play the sport that I love, which was football, successfully for 25 years. Life has been great for me.

My father instilled in me the need to behave correctly on and off the pitch.

In the Champions League, you can focus on a single game and play in exactly the style you need.

A rookie coach must be supported by a very strong structure and not get burned.

Galliani is a great leader but can't understand players.

I have great respect for the Premier League, but why leave Milan? I've got everything I want here.

Sergio Ramos has everything to become the best defender in the world, if he is not already.

Liverpool are a team that is essentially very defensive; caution is at the heart of their game.

Milan is not just a team for me. It is part of my life.

We are glad not only to bring a professional soccer team to Miami but also to support all of its communities through our social responsibility commitment.

Liverpool are a team that have no fear.

My teammate Franco Baresi was a real captain. He was an example for everyone. Not a big talker. He never talked. But on the field or in training, he was No. 1.

To compete with the great teams in Europe, you have to invest money. There is no other way to reach that kind of level.

In the 1990s, we had seven great teams - Milan, Inter, Juventus, Parma, Lazio, Roma, Fiorentina. If you look at the players, they were great players, but there was some crazy investment, and some teams went bankrupt, like Parma and Lazio.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a football player. So I achieved my dream.

I will not play a farewell game with the national team. I would like to thank the federation for expressing an interest. But I prefer to leave football with an official match because I am not a fan of farewell games.

I started playing when I was 10 for Milan, and I quit when I was 41, so it's a long, long career.

My father used to give me a lot of advice.

I won my first Champions League in 1989, and I won my last one 18 years later.

Even though I am not going to coach in the future, if I had to pass on a recommendation, it would be to base your game on having a strong defence.

It's funny that as soon as I retired from international football, Italy won the World Cup.

Sometimes when you have difficulties qualifying, you can still go and play a good World Cup.

I had my father on the Under-21 team and during the World Cup in France in 1998 - and also in AC Milan for four months. So it was a weird experience, because having your father as a coach is pretty weird, and I was the captain. But he was great.