Curt Schilling

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

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.' ”

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.' ”

I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid. ”

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

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

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. ”

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

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting. ”

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