Tim Howard

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.

I like to get more than my normal 10 hours of sleep nights before a game.

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.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.