Zitat des Tages von Curt Schilling:
I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.
I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.
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.
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 had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
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?
Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.
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 vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
I don't miss anything I did for a living.
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
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 was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
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.
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.
War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
I've got thick skin.
I'm a Republican. I'm a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking - a lot - about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand - right or wrong, agree or disagree - on anything.
I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
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.
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.
I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
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.
I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
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.