Curt Schilling Quotes

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

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.

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.’

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.

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

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.

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

I’m a Republican. I’m a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking – a lot – about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand – right or wrong, agree or disagree – on anything.

I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She’s a nightmare. The Left‘s holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don’t need the first.

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.

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

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

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

I’ve got thick skin.

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

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?

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.

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 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?

Just hear Senator McCain speak. He may not give you the answer you are looking for, he may not be in agreement with you on a stance or an issue, but the man is honest to a fault.

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

I always believed God gave us the tools to take care of ourselves.

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.

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

I loved fantasy role play.

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

In my 20 years of baseball, I’ve been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that’s incredible.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called ‘Wizardry’; that was the game that hooked me forever.

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.

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 was always an MMO fan. I’m playing ‘World of Warcraft‘ in the clubhouse, and J.D. Drew and Coco Crisp saw me playing. They came over and got interested, and they wound up creating accounts.

I don’t pitch for contracts.

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

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

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

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

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’m loud. I talk too much; I think I know more than I do – those and a billion other issues I know I have.

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.

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

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

My whole life was spent doing things that people didn’t believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.

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.