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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Bonus
Christ
Losing
Winning
Life Important My Life
Life My Life Winning
Everything Else
Life My Life Important
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Plenty
Right Time
Time Always Back
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Categories
Fall
Certainly
God Know More
Short
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Chance
Break
Clubs
Tacit
Understanding
Among
Miss
Big Break
Career
Earnings
Exponentially
Improved
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I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Community
Eye
Want
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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 / Soccer Player
Something Special
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Crossroads
Since
Played
David
Career
Role
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The most important thing in my life is Christ. He’s more important to me than winning or losing or whether I’m playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Christian
Jesus Christ
Winning
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When the whistle blows, I’m completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally, the danger is over.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Blow
Down And
Lockers
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Table
Took
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Cream
Depends
Healthy
Healthy Lifestyle
Ice
Ice Cream
Lifestyle
Prefer
Crappy
Sweets
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Fabric
Fur
Animals
Badly
Wearing
Suffer
Supposed
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Associate
Myself Important Feel
Companies
Model
Images
Role
Role Model
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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.'
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Compulsion
Conscious
Disorder
Brings
Intrusive
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Concentration
Serious
Stronger
Soon
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Coaches
Deals
Position
Soccer
Tough
Outfield
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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 / Soccer Player
Cash
Dollars
Doubt
Million Dollars
Million
Mine
Room
Sit
Stacked
Twitch
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Fixing
Manchester
Manchester United
Apart
David
Be The First
Coach
Unfortunately
Head
Head Coach
Realize
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Contracts
Marketing
Short Lived
Standpoint
Big Thing
Catch
Oftentimes
Tremendously
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Earth
Sight
Texas
Tree
Clint
Dempsey
Michael
Likely
Pose
Poses
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And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace. That probably sounds crazy to most people, but that’s the kind of peace Christ gives. It is rooted in His love, and it surpasses all understanding.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Crazy
Giving
People
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Bob
Controversial
July
Soccer
World Class
Announced
German
Coach
Fired
Head Coach
Hired
Regarded
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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 / Soccer Player
Dinner
Disrespectful
Eating
Rude
Taught
Autograph
Meal
Sign
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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 / Soccer Player
Agree
Best Way
Best World Way
Argue
Young Players
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Athlete
One Day
Professional Athlete
Doctor
Meet
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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 / Soccer Player
Form
Worst
Touch
Developed
Exactly
Exactly What
Literally
Symptom
Talked
Touch People
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Accustomed
Coaches
Injured
Team
Turnover
Come And Go
Cut
Fired
Hired
Professionally
Transferred
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No, we discuss it as fans. When we see the game, we talk about what we thought was a call or a foul or no foul. We just have to deal with that in the game. There's gonna be plenty more of those. Referees are humans, so it's not a problem.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Fans
Games
Problem
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Dream
Sports
Grew
Jordan
Two
Wanted
Always Me True
Sports Always Me
True
Fan
Michael
Sports Me Always
Happen
Idol
Michael Jordan
Professionally
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Mom
Belief
Broke
Fingers
Mold
Strong
Taught
Family Mom Me
Family Always Me
Family Mom Always
Bone
Gave
Morals
Provide
Stayed
Worked
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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 Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Kids
Brain
Years
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Age
Behavior
Brain
Disorder
Facial
Jersey
Manchester
Manchester United
New Jersey
Obsessive
Outburst
Speech
United
Vocal
Compulsive
Cope
Early
Early Age
Goalkeeper
Trigger
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Accurate
Cards
Classroom
Hours
Long Hours
Troublemaker
Teachers
Report
Basically
Long Me Nothing
Comments
Liked
Impertinent
Seemed
Spent
Whatsoever
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Bubbles
Compulsion
Conscious
Satisfied
Stem
Thoughts Mind Body
Sensation
Specific
Urge
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Able
Coaches
Coaching
Emotion
Happens
Harder
Hours
Ideas
One Thing
Passion
Preparation
Actually
Liked
Dictate
Getting
Headaches
Put
The One Thing
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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.
Tim Howard / Soccer Player
Five
Months
Ten
Affects
Basis
Daily
Daily Basis
Daunting
Gotten
Older
Sustain
Ten Years
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