Curt Schilling Quotes

• The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I’m tapped out.

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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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• 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.

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• I’ve helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That’s cool.

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• I’ve got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

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• I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.

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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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• The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long run, we would be better off without federal funding.

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

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• As much as I’d like to think I’m a really good designer, I’m average.

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• Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I’m scared to death.

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• Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

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• I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

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• 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.

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Curt Schilling (62)

Birth:	14th November, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Curtis Montague Schilling was born in Anchorage, Alaska. He is a former American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher, former video game developer and current ESPN baseball color analyst. He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in 1993 and won World Series championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Boston Red Sox. He graduated from Shadow Mountain High School in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1985, before attending Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.

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