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.

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

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

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?

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.'

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.

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?

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

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

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

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

I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

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.

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.

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

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