Tim Howard

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Right now, as I've gotten older, my tics sustain for five or ten years. So, I can deal with them on a daily basis; I know how it affects my body. But when you're 10 years old, and every three months a tic comes along, it's daunting because you don't know what the next one is going to look like, what it's going to feel like.”

“I knew I wasn't going to play for the NBA.”

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

“Living with Tourette's is not easy.”

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

“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 don't feel the need to be seen, to be glorified in any way.”

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

“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.”

“I don't complain when it's sunny.”

“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.”