Curt Schilling famous quotes

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'
-- Curt Schilling

#Father #Kids #People

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

#Baseball #Balls

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Doctors #Rehab #Surgery

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Baseball #Player #Thinking

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
-- Curt Schilling

#Sports #Baseball #Achieve

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Baseball #Stupid #Years

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Baseball #Wall #Cutting

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

#Baseball #Gone

The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.
-- Curt Schilling

#Wrestling #Games #Crowds

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Jobs #Dollars #Income

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?
-- Curt Schilling

#Guy #Gone #Teammate

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Morning #Jobs #Games

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

#Two #Underwear #Laptops

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Baseball #Insane #Passionate

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

#Baseball #Kids #Careers

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.
-- Curt Schilling

#Guy #Routine

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Games #Play #People

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

#People #Fans

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
-- Curt Schilling

#Athlete #Player #Pitcher

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

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Mistake #Mean #Yankees

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

#Speech #Way #Trust Me

I don't miss anything I did for a living.
-- Curt Schilling

#Missing

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Cancer #Skins #Dollars

I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
-- Curt Schilling

#Playing Games #Years #Gamer

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

#Senior #Jobs #School

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Hate #People #Wish

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Good Day #Bad Day #Mind

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Mistake #Book #Done

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?
-- Curt Schilling

#Sports #Running #Father

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#People #Mentor #Teammate

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

#Sports #Spring #Games

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
-- Curt Schilling

#Thinking #Accomplishment #Consistency

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

#Differences #Raised

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

#Sports #Thinking #Who I Am

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Dumb #Said

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
-- Curt Schilling

#Athlete #Geek

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
-- Curt Schilling

#Laptops #Pounds

I don't pitch for contracts.
-- Curt Schilling

#Contracts

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
-- Curt Schilling

#Government #Entrepreneur #Helping

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
-- Curt Schilling

#Writing #People #Stuff

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

#War #Mean #Thinking

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

#Sports #Long #People

Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.
-- Curt Schilling

#Yankees #Guy #Fans

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Mind #Achieve #Wanted

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

#League #Idiot #Bigs

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

#Party #Lines #Vote

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.
-- Curt Schilling

#Real #World #Real World

I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.
-- Curt Schilling

#Kids

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.'
-- Curt Schilling

#Team #Successful #Guy

It really is not that complicated, I just don’t understand HOW people don’t grasp the concept of ‘Free Market’, and why left alone, it WORKS!
-- Curt Schilling

#People #Complicated #Left Alone

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

#Thinking #Average #Designer

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Believe #Government #Want

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

#Stupid #Kids #Years

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

#Winning #Balls

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.
-- Curt Schilling

#Winning #Thinking #Games

The most important to me is, Theo is a good person first and foremost. And I think that has a lot to do with it. He's not deceitful. He's an honest guy, a good guy. There's a lot more to this thing than it being a job for him, being born and raised here, the Red Sox being as important as they are to him. Above all else, Theo understands he's a compromiser. Theo understands that the clubhouse is our home. He doesn't invade that privacy often. When he does, he doesn't make you uncomfortable and that says as much about him as anything.
-- Curt Schilling

#Jobs #Lying #Home

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#Salt #Gamer #Grain

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer
-- Curt Schilling

#Physics #Theory