Quotes from Curt Schilling

I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.'

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 got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

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

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

I'm loud. I talk too much; I think I know more than I do - those and a billion other issues I know I have.

My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.

I don't have a racist bone in my body.

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

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.

I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.

I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

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.

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

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 don't pitch for contracts.

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.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

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've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.

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 think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.