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
He's been doing that every inning he's thrown this year. He's maturing physically and mentally -- every pitch, every at-bat. He's thinking and he's not thinking too much. He's thinking just enough and he's making adjustments. He's making them on the fly. When you can do them with that stuff, he's going to get better fast and he's done that.
Today was probably as bad a fastball physically as I've felt like I've had all spring. Regardless of my emotions coming out of this game or how I feel about everything. I've got to be ready to go Monday.
I didn't feel any different physically than I have felt in the past, ... We used all my pitches. I got outs with all of them. We located better today. I think that's obvious.
I know there are a lot of people that don't want to hear it, but when I look back on it, stuff-wise, that's every bit as good as I threw the ball last year from a pure physical standpoint, ... Every time I needed to reach back, I felt like I did and had something extra on the ball. I had all four of my pitches. I just didn't pitch well. I'm not used to that. I'm not used to feeling that good and not pitching well. That was kind of odd for me.
I don't think any of my questions will really get answered until the season starts. I want to believe that physically I am where I was -- or better.
For the first time since April 2004, there really is no physical limit to getting ready for me. That's a big difference.
If I thought about how I felt last year in my best start and ranked it, today was in a different stratosphere from a physical standpoint.
Without David, we don't make the postseason. David made an enormous impact on this team, and you can't understate his impact in the clubhouse, ... Congratulations to Alex. Either one of them could have won it. Both had MVP years.
We just weren't good enough to win again,
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.