Quotes By Curt Schilling

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

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

I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.

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 have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

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

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 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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.