Top 133 Milan Quotes

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

I want to end my career at Milan.

My mission is to be kept on by Milan. Nobody wants to stay with the Rossoneri for only for one season.

The decision to go to Milan, as everyone knows, made me mature as a man. It was a big chance and perhaps too big for the man I was at the time.

I stayed in Milan for six years. I stayed in Madrid for four years. I played in Brazil for nine years, so I always think about the good projects.

It is a great honour for me to be the Milan coach. It’s a lot of pressure and responsibility too, but I like that.

When I first went to Milan, my agent said you have to give off a strong, masculine energy. They don’t like campiness. They like boys to appear straight and to appear masculine. I quickly learned the game of it and how to navigate around it.

I met some beautiful people at Milan, first of all Rino Gattuso. It was a difficult year, but that’s not to say it was useless.

I spent seven years with Jose and we were part of a very good technical staff. We went to top class clubs at Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan and worked with top players who gave us such a tremendous volume of success.

In management, everything is different. If you look at successful coaches, they always need time to kickstart something. Arrigo Sacchi – when he started the revolution at Milan, he was almost on the brink of being sacked, but then he won, and people started believing in the system; he had more time to breathe.

I like Chelsea, Milan and Inter. I have always followed the two Italian teams because my role models when I was young were Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, and they played for those teams.

We’re Milan and we’re not afraid of anyone.

The players who played for Milan when I was a child are legends for what they’ve won and given to football. Then, when I got bigger, Nesta became my idol and I went on to become a defender.

I have never seen a talent like Ronaldo. He always scores, scores, scores. The first game he played for Milan, Sienna away, I said to him, ‘I can’t put you on the pitch. You are 100kg.’ ‘Mister,’ he said, ‘don’t worry, I will score.’ I put him in, and he scored twice.

My dream is to stay at AC Milan for my entire career.

I hope Milan will become the model to follow for Italian teams – it would mean that we had gone far in the Champions League!

There are teams I like a lot like Inter and AC Milan, so I’d think about going to the Italian league.

I have gone through a lot of things, everything that you can imagine in life, but the best has been Gerard and Milan.

I have changed quite a lot since I came to Milan and I think I have become a more all-round footballer.

My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

Designers from Milan think that ‘more is more,’ like Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana.

Ancelotti is a coach with a lot of experience. He won the Champions League while at Milan, playing some great football in the process.

I bought a place in Milan, but Missoni headquarters are out in the country, in Sumirago. My whole family eats out of the same vegetable garden; my mother raises chickens. I love the city, but if you’re always bombarded with stimulation, you get numb to it. I need to get bored to create.

I am very happy at Milan.

I don’t regret my choice to sign for Milan.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

I think Milan lack a bit of renovation and planning for the future. Too often, they focused only on the present, particularly after the 2007 Champions League triumph.

I grew up watching the great Milan teams with the Dutch players.

Ancelotti has managed a lot of big clubs, and I think he would do well at Madrid because Juventus, Milan, Chelsea, and Paris Saint-Germain are big clubs.

I have never been at a club where the players talked so much about a previous manager as they did about Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan.

I chose Milan for many reasons. It is a great club and the team is made of an historic group of players.

Coming back to AC Milan was like I’d never been away, actually: you know everybody; everybody knows you.

Kaka, he made history with Milan and if he is loved so much it means he did well.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

Milan, Inter, Roma, Juventus, Lazio – all of the big Italian clubs would be nice, but my son has a lot of work to do to show himself off and demonstrate his talent. Let’s take things slowly.

To those who call me a mercenary I say that I also had interest from abroad, where I would have earned more. I have chosen Milan because, in my head, there is the idea of repeating the course I had at Juventus, where we had started rebuilding, as in this case, and we came to the top.

I am always grateful to my team-mates at Milan for what we achieved.

I have spent half of my career at Milan.

I am very happy to coach AC Milan, it’s a very big opportunity for me because Milan is the club of my life.

The last problem Milan have to worry about is Rino Gattuso. I feel at home here and have great responsibility towards this club. Those aren’t just words, I really mean it.

After all the good years in the kit, I hope to close my career with Milan.

If Inter decide to sell me, I’ll pack my bags and go. If not, I’ll stay here in Milan where I am honestly very happy.

When I was talking with Shanghai, I was talking to big clubs from Europe, as well. There was Atletico Madrid, who I almost joined. I liked them very much and what they were offering me at the time. There was also Juventus, Inter Milan, and AC Milan. I had some options.

When I went to AC Milan, they were four points away from the relegation zone, and by the end of the season, we were just one goal away from being in the Europa League.

During my time away from football I was with Milan and Barcelona during training. The most impressive thing about Barcelona was how humble they all are. The humility of the players and staff was fantastic.

Milan offered me something. I was very interested by the project. It did not happen for many reasons.

If you’re a talented player, and you’re 20 years old, you should be playing in the UEFA Champions League or in the elite European teams like AC Milan, Juventus, or Chelsea.

I’ve come to Milan because I think I can play; otherwise, I wouldn’t have come here. I’m pleased they were interested in me.

I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought ‘Genius.’ Inside I put the Polaroids, how much film I shot, who I shot with. This way, for billing later on, I had all the information.

Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance.

The arrival of Beckham at Milan is not just a matter of marketing.

For seven years, I had a business relationship in Milan, Milano. Dealing with Italians, just, let me tell you… Are we the same? Good lord, no! That’s why Europe’s fun – it’s fun because it’s different. A political project that seeks to make it all the same – it’s ghastly.

All the games we play are worth the same because we can aim to get points in the league. Milan wants to fight until the end in the league and wants to compete with everyone until the last match day.

Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

Beauty and fashion are not really local anymore. You really have to be a global citizen to know what trends are. Now, it’s pretty much the same designers and the same kind of trends, whether I am in New York, Milan, or Mumbai – it’s the same.

I have a restaurant in Milan, and Paper Moon is five minutes away from my hotel, so I always go there for lunch. It’s a casual place that serves good salad, pizza and pasta; the space is tight with tables close together, and it feels buzzy. Food comes out fast, too.

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan’s defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

I love Milan because it’s my home town. But Paris is the dream city: even when you’re stressed out in shows, you look around, and everything is so beautiful. Then, in New York, I love the energy of the city.

I knew from day one what I was going into with the Milan job.

I have to say that clubs like Piacenza, Atalanta, and Parma always call me, they make me feel important. Probably they also appreciated me as a man, not just as a player. But after everything I’ve experienced with the Rossoneri’s shirt, I think it’s right that I end my career at Milan.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

In Milan, I’m treated with the respect that doctors receive in America. It’s wonderful living where artists are revered.

The press always pick on British fashion, but I don’t think that there are more successful young designers than in Paris or Milan. It’s all a myth.

Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It’s so fashion-obsessed that people don’t pay that much attention to the food.

Milan are the most glorious Italian club.

The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, ‘Miracle in Milan.’ It’s a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

I still have a home in Sarajevo, and there is a room where the walls are covered with football jerseys. One is a Milan shirt with Shevchenko’s name and number on the back. It is an original from one of his Serie A appearances, and he has autographed it. It has pride of place. It really is my prized possession.

After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States – the greatest privilege on planet Earth.

If I play well for Holland, I am sure that I will have my chance for Milan.

What can you say about Carlo Ancelotti? I talk to him regularly and he made history for Milan.

I want to thank Milan because the most beautiful years of my life were spent wearing that shirt.

The first time was in Brazil, and the second time was when I was playing for Shakhtar against Inter in Milan. Fans were banned from the stadium on both occasions, and it is different. You have to keep your concentration on the pitch and try to win the game.

In 2009, I accepted the proposal of Real Madrid, but I was completely destroyed there because I could not give what I had given Milan. I was completely lost.

At Milan, Kaka used to work even when we had two or three days off. And our fitness coach, Daniele Tognaccini, made him run.

AC Milan would never have been the same club without Paolo Maldini or Franco Baresi and they certainly would have never had the same amount of success.

When United play at home, they get some advantage that other teams don’t get. I think when you go to United, Madrid, Barcelona, or Milan, when the referees referee these kind of games, it’s always difficult to go against these kind of teams.

I had to prove everything because I was coming from Milan, and nobody knew me. I was a young talent who hadn’t done anything, so I had it all to prove and all to do.

I will not leave Milan until I have demonstrated my worth.

I’d have signed for Real in a heartbeat. They’re a club with more glamour than Milan; more prospects, more appeal, more everything. They strike fear in their opponents, whoever they happen to be.

From the bottom of my heart I can honestly say that it is always nice to see Milan play.

For me, Real Madrid are just like any other club, like Barcelona, Milan, Bayern Munich, or Inter. Just another big club.

I am always in love with Milan. The relationship with the team, with the club, and with these fans is beautiful. It’s weird for a Brazilian to have a relationship like that with an Italian club.

I had nice years at Ajax, wonderful years with Milan, and won something with the national team.

It is nice to hear things said about you, but if I was to stay at Milan, then I’d be happy. It is a great club.

Seedorf is doing well, and I am happy for him. I hope he stays at Milan so that he can prove how much he really understands about football.

I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, ‘How does it feel to be the model of the moment?’ It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.

It is true that I did not want to leave Milan. That changed when Zlatan Ibrahimovic came from Barcelona. Then I realised that for me it is better to go.

I love Milan, and I’m not just saying that. It’s a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can’t explain why, but I feel a special energy there.

I grew up in Milan during the golden age of designers. There was fashion all around.

My favorite thing about Milan is that you see these guys, and it’s as if a spaceship came out of the most attractive planet invented and just dropped them off all across the city.

Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He’s a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses,’ which I made a version of many years later as ‘Valmont.’

It would have been a shame not to reach 300 appearances with Milan, after 12 years as a Rossonero and 126 goals.

Everyone knows that Milan is a historic team: they’ve won seven Champions Leagues; they’ve had a lot of strong players and a lot of Ballons d’Or.

You would never see anyone go to a restaurant in Milan wearing a jumpsuit!

I have always said that it is fundamental to have a strong core of Italian players in a club squad. At AC Milan, we had that and we won. The same at Juventus.

With all due respect, but Juventus are not Real Madrid or the AC Milan of Ronaldinho’s days. They can win games 6-2 or 5-2. Juventus are not like that. We have to win 1-0 or 2-0. It’s in the club’s DNA. That does not mean we will not try to win 3-0, but we are a team that cannot concede a goal when we are ahead.

I always play to win, as I proved at AC Milan, Real Madrid, Roma and Juventus. I want my players to have the same ambition.

It gives me great pleasure to see my name linked with clubs like Manchester United and Milan.

We have a priest at Inter Milan and a chapel at the training ground. That is where I was baptised and confirmed into the church.

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.

Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing.

I am not a mercenary. Milan was my home. They made a good deal, though. They signed me for 10 million euros and sold me for 42 million euros.

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

It was Milan who proved they wanted me and they did everything to get me.

London has a very specific kind of style; it’s very different to Milan, Paris, and New York. It’s nice having that personality that we haven’t lost. It’s the English quirky style that people like to see when they come to Fashion Week.

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

You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.

I hope to do with Milan what Pirlo did with Juve.

AC Milan will always be a great team.

While my calendar with Moda Operandi often takes me to fashionable locales like Milan and Paris, I am thrilled when opportunities to visit new places present themselves.

My family is very much at home here in Milan.

Milan is good, and I am settling in nicely, which is important. Everyone is friendly at the club and are looking after me well, so I can’t complain.

You go to Madrid, you have four or five teams at the maximum level. You go to Milan, and it’s the same. Napoli is similar to Newcastle in terms of everyone supporting one club in the city. It’s positive and unique when you have that.

It’s difficult to take in but my relationship with Milan is special.

I’m a big fan of the Premier League, but you can’t say no when a club like Milan come knocking.

I got my driver’s license in Milan, so if you can drive in Milan you can drive all over the world.

Usually, a Brazilian doesn’t like to work hard in training, doesn’t like to stay focused. I trained a lot of Brazilian players. I had a problem with Ronaldo at Milan. It was not easy to get him fit! Ronaldo was 100kg but was the quickest in the 10 metre test!

I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

If Ryan Giggs was plying his trade and been the player he had been here in a foreign league, he would go straight from playing to an AC Milan or Inter Milan or any top European club out of the mix.

At Inter Milan, I agreed to play on the wing and didn’t like it.

Will I go back to Milan one day? I don’t know what the future will be.

The Champions League without Milan is not the Champions League.

When I arrived in Milan, I found myself surrounded by many fantastic footballers.

Milan is a true metropolis: strong and fearless but welcoming, too. Little by little, I came to realize that I could become someone here.

AC Milan are my top priority and I will never cause any problems for this team.

Milan are the most glorious Italian club.

Eugenio Montale – born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 – is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.

Sometimes I have ice cream for lunch. Gelateria Sempione in Milan is the best in the world, hands down. The chocolate sorbetto is amazing.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It’s – it’s amazing.

After the Champions League final in 2007… I would never have thought I would have finished my career in Milan!

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

As I said in the past, when I chose to come to AC Milan I knew I would go through good and bad times.

I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody’s screaming and laughing very loud. It’s something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.