Quotes By Curt Schilling

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 don't miss anything I did for a living.

I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.

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

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

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.

I've got thick skin.

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

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

I loved fantasy role play.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

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.

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

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

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.