A biography for Curt Schillinghasn’t been written yet.
“I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.”
“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?”
“Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.”
“On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.”
“Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.”
“I always believed God gave us the tools to take care of ourselves.”
“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.”
“As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.”
“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.”
“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 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 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?”
“I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.”
“I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.”
“I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.”
“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.”
“'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.”
“I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.”
“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.”
“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.”