Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.
— Tim Howard
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.
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.'
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.
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.
I was a pretty popular kid, and I participated in every sport.
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.
You want to be wanted, and you want people to rely on you.
I've been fortunate enough to be headstrong, to be full of self-belief, and those things have never wavered for me.
Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better.
Good keepers sniff out attacks whether with the feet or a throw out.
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.
Living with Tourette's is not easy.
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.
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.
There are very few young goalkeepers who play at the top level. Most goalkeepers figure it out as time goes on.
Pressure can be good. It helps you to see what you're all about.
It's easy to just go out and buy a $200 piece of clothing. The real challenge is finding it for half that.
I'll be on a beach somewhere when I'm 40.
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.
Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.
If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.
I don't feel the need to be seen, to be glorified in any way.
I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.
When you're not needed somewhere, it never feels great.
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 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 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.
My life is training.
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.
I'm a gym rat; I love my hour-long afternoon sessions with my trainer.
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 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.
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.
I knew I wasn't going to play for the NBA.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
Confidence is on one side of the line, and self-belief is on another. People all think those are mixed up.
I don't complain when it's sunny.
I like to get more than my normal 10 hours of sleep nights before a game.
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.
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.
Football's cruel sometimes.
Three mornings a week, I exercise before eating - it's called 'fasted cardio' - to burn fat.
Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.
My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.
