Curt Schilling's Quotes

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK.

I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect. We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart.

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.

The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.

I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

I don't miss anything I did for a living.