Curt Schilling
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.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Car
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.Collection: Sports
On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
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.
I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.
I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
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 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?
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.
I don't pitch for contracts.
The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.
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 did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.
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'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.
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 think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
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 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.
In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
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.
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 don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
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 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.
I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
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.
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
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.'
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
I'm a very routine-oriented guy.
I don't miss anything I did for a living.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.
I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.
War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.
I loved fantasy role play.
I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.