Tim Howard Quotes

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.

You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it's: Do you prefer sweets and crappy food, or do you prefer to have a nice body? It depends on what you want more.

When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.

Good keepers sniff out attacks whether with the feet or a throw out.

When the whistle blows, I'm completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally, the danger is over.

Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better.

I don't feel the need to be seen, to be glorified in any way.

Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.

As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.

I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to go on goalie - coaches would make deals with me so I'd do it. It's a tough position as a kid.

My life is training.

I enjoy being a role model for kids.

I think we have more athleticism, I think we have more pace and that's going to be important to deal with Ghana.

I've been fortunate enough to be headstrong, to be full of self-belief, and those things have never wavered for me.

There's a tacit understanding among clubs that a good player shouldn't miss out on the big break of his career or a chance at exponentially improved earnings.

If there is a less likely sight on this earth than Clint Dempsey, the Texas trailer-park kid, doing downward-facing dog poses, or the stalwart Michael Bradley deep breathing through a tree pose, I have yet to see it.

I was a pretty popular kid, and I participated in every sport.

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.

David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.

It will take a nation of millions to hold me back.

It's easy to just go out and buy a $200 piece of clothing. The real challenge is finding it for half that.

I like to get more than my normal 10 hours of sleep nights before a game.

I don't sign autographs when I'm out for a meal or out with my kids. I think that's rude and disrespectful. I would never ask anyone for an autograph while they were eating dinner; that's what I was taught by my parents.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

When you're not needed somewhere, it never feels great.

We all need God in certain ways, you know. And I certainly fall short in a lot of categories. And it's at those times that I need much more help than most.

No, we discuss it as fans. When we see the game, we talk about what we thought was a call or a foul or no foul. We just have to deal with that in the game. There's gonna be plenty more of those. Referees are humans, so it's not a problem.

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.

I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.

Some goalkeepers are really sexy with their feet. I have a little sexiness with my feet, but I don't like to bring it out.

When I was 11, I developed a new symptom - the worst one yet: I had to touch people before I talked to them. When I say 'had to,' that's exactly what I mean: if I didn't touch them first, I literally couldn't form the words.

Maybe the game of your life simply means the one that most inspires other people.

Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.

I can't know what's coming. I only know how to make myself feel ready for it.

My personal trainer suggested paleo to build muscle while staying lean, and it's one of the first plans that's worked for me.

And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace. That probably sounds crazy to most people, but that's the kind of peace Christ gives. It is rooted in His love, and it surpasses all understanding.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

When you play against top players, sometimes you can play - you can play your utmost and you still get beat.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me.

Living with Tourette's is not easy.

I don't get a lot of time with my children. My time is precious, and time with my two kids is like gold dust to me. I can't get that time back.

Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

There are very few young goalkeepers who play at the top level. Most goalkeepers figure it out as time goes on.