Curt Schilling Quotes
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I don't have a racist bone in my body.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops.
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I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
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In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
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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.
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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.
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The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.
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I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.
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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.
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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.
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I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
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There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
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Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.
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You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
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On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
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I've got thick skin.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.