Curt Schilling Quotes

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.

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 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?

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

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

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.

The most important to me is, Theo is a good person first and foremost. And I think that has a lot to do with it. He's not deceitful. He's an honest guy, a good guy. There's a lot more to this thing than it being a job for him, being born and raised here, the Red Sox being as important as they are to him. Above all else, Theo understands he's a compromiser. Theo understands that the clubhouse is our home. He doesn't invade that privacy often. When he does, he doesn't make you uncomfortable and that says as much about him as anything.

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

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'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.

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.

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

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.'

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I loved fantasy role play.

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

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

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'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.

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

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

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

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

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

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer

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 was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.

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

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

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

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

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