Curt Schilling
Curt Schilling
Curtis Montague Schillingis an American former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher, former video game developer, and former baseball color analyst. He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in 1993, and won championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Boston Red Sox. Schilling retired with a career postseason record of 11–2, and his .846 postseason winning percentage is a major-league record among pitchers with at least ten decisions. He is a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth14 November 1966
CountryUnited States of America
I tried as hard as I could not to pay attention to the scoreboard,
It really did. It was like having a second bachelor party.
I tried to sequence some pitches and approaches as if I was facing big league hitters. But I pitched, and I haven't done that in a long, long time, since early 2004, without other questions going on.
We're playing in an environment in the last decade that's been tailored to produce offensive numbers anyway, with the smaller ballparks, the smaller strike zone and so forth,
The only joy out of this comes out of winning, ... especially now.
Yeah. I read something the other day about his career, his career numbers and how a lot of his career numbers coincide with certain dates, and he obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied, so I don't know there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.
When you're young, you tend to do things like that because you want people to think you're a nice guy. At some point, I realized that I'm doing this not because I want people to think I'm a nice guy. I'm doing this because I think it's the right thing to do.
We'll show up in spring training and get ready for the season and try to win another World Series, ... It's not like we're going to have a sit-down.
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.
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.
The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.
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.