Tim Howard Quotes

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Tim Howard

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 6, 1979

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.

Tim Howard

Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing.

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

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My personal trainer suggested paleo to build muscle while staying lean, and it's one of the first plans that's worked for me.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Living with Tourette's is not easy.

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My life is training.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Good keepers sniff out attacks whether with the feet or a throw out.

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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.

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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.

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When you're not needed somewhere, it never feels great.

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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.

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I'm on television, ticcing and twitching. I think that's kind of cool.

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