Curt Schilling Quotes
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I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
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On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
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I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
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I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.
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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.
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You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
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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.
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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.
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I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
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In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
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I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.
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I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
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Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
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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.
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I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
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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.
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I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.
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The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.
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As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
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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,'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.
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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.
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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.
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People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.
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