Quotes By Curt Schilling

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've got thick skin.

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

I loved fantasy role play.

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

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.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

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.

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

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 don't pitch for contracts.

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

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.

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

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

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 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 been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.