Quotes from Tim Howard

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

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.

I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.

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 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.

Football's cruel sometimes.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes it's even hard to tell the difference between a tic and a compulsion. But while tics stem from an urge in a specific part of the body - either completely unconsciously or through a premonitory sensation that's satisfied only by the tic - OCD bubbles up as conscious thoughts in the mind.

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

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

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.

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