I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.
— Tim Howard
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.
As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.
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.
Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.
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.
You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.
I enjoy being a role model for kids.
I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.
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.
If there is a less likely sight on this earth than Clint Dempsey, the Texas trailer-park kid, doing downward-facing dog poses, or the stalwart Michael Bradley deep breathing through a tree pose, I have yet to see it.
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.
The President doesn't ring people out of the blue, so you know you've done something well.
If you qualify for a World Cup and expect to get an easy group, you are in the wrong sport. It doesn't work like that.
I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.
When you play against top players, sometimes you can play - you can play your utmost and you still get beat.
I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.
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.
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.
David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.
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.
Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing.
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 grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.
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.
