Tim Howard Quotes

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Tim Howard

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 6, 1979

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

Tim Howard

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

Tim Howard

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.

Tim Howard

If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.

Tim Howard

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.

Tim Howard

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.

Tim Howard

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.

Tim Howard

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.

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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.

Tim Howard

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.'

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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.

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I'll be on a beach somewhere when I'm 40.

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.

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

Tim Howard

It's easy to just go out and buy a $200 piece of clothing. The real challenge is finding it for half that.

Tim Howard

Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.

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