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
I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
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.
In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
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'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.
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 don't pitch for contracts.
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 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 don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
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.
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 got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
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.
The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.
I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.
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.
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.
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
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 think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
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 did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.
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.
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
