The New Yorker has a great feature on Tim Howard (6/7/10 edition)

Memorable quotes:

"Ferguson boasted that in his experiment with Howard he'd made a sort of anthropological discovery about the promise of American footballers. The Americans "are an athletic, agile race," he said. "You see the spring Tim's got. A lot of them play basketball, which possibly helps. And they don't believe they can lose - that's their upbringing."

also:

"In goal, they're trying to get the hall past you; you're trying to stop it," Howard says. "Anything else is just meaningless."