Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.
Curt Schilling
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
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 don't have a racist bone in my body.
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.
I was always an MMO fan. I'm playing 'World of Warcraft' in the clubhouse, and J.D. Drew and Coco Crisp saw me playing. They came over and got interested, and they wound up creating accounts.
In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.
I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
'Reckoning' will be the first game of its kind. They've taken that 'God of War'-style combat and placed it in a truly open world with hundreds of hours of gameplay. You can do whatever it is you want to do. What path you take, what role you choose, what trail you blaze - there's meaning and depth and substance in the world.
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'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
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.
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.
I've got thick skin.
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.
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?
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.
I don't pitch for contracts.
The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.
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 did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.
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 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 am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.
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.
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 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 had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.
I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.
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.'
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
I'm a very routine-oriented guy.
