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“Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing.”
“Pressure can be good. It helps you to see what you're all about.”
“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 wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.”
“I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.”
“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.”
“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.”
“David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.”
“I'll be on a beach somewhere when I'm 40.”
“Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.”
“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.”
“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'm on television, ticcing and twitching. I think that's kind of cool.”
“I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.”
“If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.”
“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.”