Curt Schilling

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? ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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 don't miss anything I did for a living. ”

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. ”