Top 45 Tim Howard Quotes

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.

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.

Living with Tourette’s is not easy.

David Moyes is someone I’m forever indebted to.

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

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.

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

Pressure can be good. It helps you to see what you’re all about.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Three mornings a week, I exercise before eating – it’s called ‘fasted cardio’ – to burn fat.

Football’s cruel sometimes.

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

As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

As soon as things get serious in front of the goal, I don’t have any twitches… It’s probably because at that moment, my concentration on the game is stronger than the Tourette syndrome.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.’