Curt Schilling Quotations | Page 2

I don't expect anything. I have no control over whether Manny comes through the door or not, and how I feel about it is not going to change anything.

I don't give two (expletive) when Manny shows up. He'll be ready to play. I don't care. He'll be ready. One thing Manny does is put in his time and effort into getting ready. On (Opening Day) April 3, he'll be here and ready to hit.

I think he's a guy that you benefit a lot more from getting 200 innings out of than 60. Makeup-wise, he's not far from being a consistent winner in the big leagues.

I think he gets how big this thing is for me. And how important this thing is for me. Every inning. Every out. Every pitch. How that affects him, I don't know. But he's very intelligent, and things don't get lost on him. If you're talking pitching and he thinks it will help, he'll use it.

Knowing that Joe has pitched as well as he has, I thought this was going to be a tight game, ... Then I gave up those two runs in about two minutes. I thought they might come out and be aggressive and they did.

Knowing that Joe has pitched as well as he has, it had nothing to do with him facing us the first time. He's been throwing the ball great. It felt like it was going to be a tight game, and then I gave up two runs in about two minutes, before anybody's even sitting in their seats. ... I couldn't afford to make a mistake after that.

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.