American - Athlete | March 6, 1979 -
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
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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 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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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've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.
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I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.
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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.
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I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
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I enjoy being a role model for kids.
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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.
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When you play against top players, sometimes you can play - you can play your utmost and you still get beat.
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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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