Curt Schilling

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

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.

My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.

The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.

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

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.

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.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

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.

It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.

Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.