Top 50 Curt Schilling Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.”

— Curt Schilling

3. “I’m not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.”

— Curt Schilling

4. “I think I’ve earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.”

— Curt Schilling

5. “The bigger the game the better. I’m an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.”

— Curt Schilling

6. “In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.”

— Curt Schilling

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “I care what people think, but that doesn’t change what I say. I am who I am.”

— Curt Schilling

16. “I don’t vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.”

— Curt Schilling

17. “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

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

— Curt Schilling

19. “Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.”

— Curt Schilling

20. “I did all the stupid things you’d expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.”

— Curt Schilling

21. “I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.”

— Curt Schilling

22. “On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.”

— Curt Schilling

23. “I’ve got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.”

— Curt Schilling

24. “I’m a very routine-oriented guy.”

— Curt Schilling

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

— Curt Schilling

26. “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

27. “There’s not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.”

— Curt Schilling

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

33. “I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.”

— Curt Schilling

34. “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

35. “I don’t have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.”

— Curt Schilling

36. “I’ve been playing games for 30 years, and I’ve been a hard-core gamer.”

— Curt Schilling

37. “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

38. “Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.”

— Curt Schilling

39. “I don’t miss anything I did for a living.”

— Curt Schilling

40. “I tell people all the time that without the fans, I’ve got nothing.”

— Curt Schilling

41. “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

42. “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

43. “In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.”

— Curt Schilling

44. “The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I’m tapped out.”

— Curt Schilling

45. “A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer.”

— Curt Schilling

46. “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

47. “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

48. “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

49. “War is by no means something glamorous, and I don’t think that should ever be forgotten.”

— Curt Schilling

50. “I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.”

— Curt Schilling