Tim Howard Quotes

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Tim Howard

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 6, 1979

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

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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.

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

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I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

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In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

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Football's cruel sometimes.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.

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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.

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David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.

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

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