Curt Schilling

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.'

I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops.

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

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

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.