Curt Schilling

“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.”

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

“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 was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.”

“The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.”

“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'm a Republican. I'm a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking - a lot - about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand - right or wrong, agree or disagree - on anything.”

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

“There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.”

“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.”

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

“I loved fantasy role play.”

“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 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.'”

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