Quotes By Curt Schilling

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

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

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 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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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