Curt Schilling Quotes

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

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

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

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

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.

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.

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.

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

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

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've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.

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

On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.

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?

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

I don't pitch for contracts.

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

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.

The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.

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

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

I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.

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

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

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

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

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've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

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.

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.

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.

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

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

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

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

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

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

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.

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

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

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

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.