Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Curt Schilling
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
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?
I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
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 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.
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
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.
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.
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've got thick skin.
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 tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.
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 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.'
I don't miss anything I did for a living.
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 don't pitch for contracts.
I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
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'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've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
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.
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.
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 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.
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?
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.
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
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.
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.
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.
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.
I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.
I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.
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 think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
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'm a very routine-oriented guy.
I loved fantasy role play.
The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.
I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.
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.
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.
On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
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 care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.
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've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
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