Tim Howard quotes:

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 think there's a lot of things that need fixing at Manchester United apart from David Moyes, but in this business, you also realize the head coach is always going to be the first to go, unfortunately.

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

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

In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.

I enjoy being a role model for kids.

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.

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

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

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.

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

OCD is an anxiety disorder, one that brings conscious intrusive thoughts and compulsions - 'Touch the bannister. Pick up that rock. You'd better do it, or something terrible will happen.'

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.

As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.

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

I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.

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.

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whether I'm playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

Confidence is on one side of the line, and self-belief is on another. People all think those are mixed up.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

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.

It's important that I'm a role model and that the companies that I associate myself with feel the same way about their own images. Those are companies I'd like to be associated with.

I think you hope, throughout the course of your career, if you do things right often enough, you might get a moment in time that you can do something special.

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.

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.

Three mornings a week, I exercise before eating - it's called 'fasted cardio' - to burn fat.

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.

When I see someone wearing fur, I just want to sit them down in front of one of PETA's videos and show them just how badly animals suffer for this supposed fabric that no one needs.

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

The President doesn't ring people out of the blue, so you know you've done something well.

I'm a gym rat; I love my hour-long afternoon sessions with my trainer.

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.

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

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

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

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

I'm on television, ticcing and twitching. I think that's kind of cool.

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.

I don't complain when it's sunny.

If you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, 'Don't move, don't twitch, don't do anything,' without a doubt, the million dollars would be mine.

Sponsorships and marketing are oftentimes pretty short-lived. From a company's standpoint, they're often not looking to do tremendously long contracts. They're always trying to catch the next big thing.

You want to be wanted, and you want people to rely on you.

If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to afford me the opportunity to spend time with my kids.

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

David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

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.

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.

Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that's hard work.

The most important thing in my life is Christ,

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important to me than winning or losing or whether I'm playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

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 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.