Quotes from Tim Howard

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

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

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

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

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

If you qualify for a World Cup and expect to get an easy group, you are in the wrong sport. It doesn't work like that.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.

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.'

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 really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

If Jurgen Klinsmann thinks that the best way for his team to be successful is if his young players go to Europe, there is nobody in the world who can argue with that. That is his opinion, whether you agree with it or not.