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.

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.

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

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 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.'

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

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'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.

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

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

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

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

I don't pitch for contracts.

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer

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.

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

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 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?

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 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 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.

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 was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.

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.

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.

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

It really is not that complicated, I just don’t understand HOW people don’t grasp the concept of ‘Free Market’, and why left alone, it WORKS!

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

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.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

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

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.