Curt Schilling Quotes (111 Quotes)

While that may be true, I have found Martinez to be one of the most insightful, engaging and observant interviews I've ever come across in baseball, regardless of native tongue. Nobody's upset at him, ... I'm sure we'll get on him about it a little bit. We'll kid around about it. I can't wait to get one of the Who's Your Daddy T-shirts in New York. But it doesn't last. With the Red Sox and Yankees, every story has a 24-hour shelf life and then you're on to something else. It's not that big a deal.

Im not trying to hit people, but last year, getting kicked around as much as I did, I got tired of it. Hitters were very comfortable facing me last year, much more than in years past.

You guys saw Pedro do it here year after year. There were games where he didn't throw at anybody and guys still had trouble getting to the outside corner because of that inherent concern. And that's not something anybody has had to worry about facing me.

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.

The hitters will let me know. You'd hate to make the adjustment before you have to.

Guys look like Mr. Potato Head, ... with six or seven body parts that just don't look right.

I thought the same thing everybody else thought. The sun goes up and the sun comes down and the Red Sox and Yankees play meaningful games late in the year. It always happens that way.

All of 2004, I was getting shot in the ankle after April. So this has been almost two years since I felt anything remotely close to this. This is what I was like in 2002.

I want to be in the big leagues pitching, and I'm anxious to get back. I felt good today. I felt stronger than I did yesterday, which is good.

I thought they might come out aggressive. They did.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Tonight I probably pitched in more than any start I've done in my career. I had a game plan and we executed. The stuff has been there, and I felt in the seventh inning, velocity-wise, when I had to have it, I had it. That's a big boost.

I was more upset about the walk. I didn't want to do something stupid to get the tying run to the plate.

That's the problem. I can't point at anything other than I'm pitching bad, ... I feel fine. I'm just not pitching well. It's been a long time, it's frustrating.

For the first time since April 2004, there really is no physical limit to getting ready for me. That's a big difference.

Whether he's going to be able to do that, given what he's done, to me, doubtful. He has no credibility, I don't think, in that area. It's going to be tough. I just hope his life gets righted and he does the right thing.

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer. In my mind, preparation-wise, I was kind of going out there naked. That was very uncomfortable for me.

Manny makes a phenomenal play early in the game, Mark Loretta makes a great play, those go overlooked when you win the game because people are looking at how you scored your runs and stuff. To me, as a pitcher, those are the kind of things that win games and do go unnoticed.

Hopefully, it's something he's at peace with. He's a classy guy. I wish him the best. It's a tough situation, I'm guessing, because from a pitcher's standpoint, you've got to be a backup catcher that has to catch Timmy. That represents a whole new set of challenges for whoever that guy is.

He was phenomenal. That's as good as I've seen him look since October of 2004. That's exciting. It's very exciting to see that.

Anxious, ... I've still got to go out and perform. I'm going to throw some sort of pitch count Thursday.

I just want to pitch a good game, ... I don't care who it is against or when it is. I just want to pitch and contribute. That'll be a challenge.

said GM Theo Epstein . ''We feel the time in Arizona was time well spent. We intend to continue to be patient with Curt and make sure he's 100 percent ready before we send him out in game situations.

It's the chickenegg theory. Which one comes first You've got to have one with the other. When you don't have either you tend to struggle.

Any way you slice it, they were better than us, ... I hope they go on and win it.

Everything felt good. This is the first time I've been healthy in two years, and going out there to compete with nothing on your mind but your stuff is a real different feeling for me right now.

Ironic, I guess, is the word. A lot of it is my fault. If I pitched better it wouldn't have gone down to the last day of the regular season. But this was Wake's game to pitch.

I don't doubt for a second i could do it. I don't doubt either that I could be good at it. I just think it's a much different mental challenge to make than it was physical.

You just kind of have to realize that there are people that don't like you and, unfortunately, sometimes those people have a voice. Disliking me probably matches my dislike for him (Gomez), but I have a problem with people who don't have integrity and principle so that stuff happens. You just kind of just let it go.

I can understand how he can take that (comment) to be what I didn't intend it to be so I can't fault him for reacting the way he did. I wanted to find out how he's doing. Again, he had a slight concussion.

I'm at the point right now where I cannot make a mistake, ... Every mistake that I make we are paying for.

Some guys (came) as advertised. C.C. (Coco Crisp) at the top of the lineup, Mark generating runs, David doing what David always does, Coco made a great catch in the ninth inning. This is a very good team. Offensively, were going to give you nine at-bats that are going to wear you out. Later in the game, the third time through this lineup, its very tough to get this team out.

If I can add those things to what I feel is a pretty good repertoire, I can even become better. Youre not supposed to get better now, youre supposed to get older and start to decline. I dont see it. I see the exact opposite.

It was a pivotal time in my career, and fortunately for me, he was interested in me. That says a lot about him. ... I still watch video of him. I still learn from him. Just odds and ends, whatever I can pick up.

Getting kicked around as much as I did, you get tired of it. I'm not trying to hit people. But at the same time, hitters were very comfortable facing me last year, much more so last year than any year in the past, obviously. But there's something you can do about that as a pitcher, and you've got to be proactive in doing it. I feel like my command is good enough that I can throw the ball in off the plate and get people off the plate without hurting people.

I felt good. I know I gave up four runs, but I feel like I did some good things.

At no point last year was I confident and comfortable in putting guys away because, physically, I didn't feel like I had the ability to do it.

I didn't feel like I had super stuff and I didn't feel like I had bad stuff. I felt normal.

I'll be here in the morning to get work in. If he shows up, awesome.

I used all my pitches like I did as a starter and we located well. I had good command and I pitched.

The feeling after I lose a game, I can't describe how miserable, and the elation I feel after I pitch good is so much less than the bad is bad.

I'll tell you this. It's exciting being around this kid, because he has a chance to be special. And just being able to watch it has been as fun as anything.

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'm at a loss to explain it.

It's always been you reporters. That's what you do, unfortunately. It's one of those things that you just can't understand. You can only go by the numbers. It's how it works here.

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 left some balls in the middle of the plate again, in situations that you can't, ... I let them feel like they were in that game the whole way and not shutting the door is not something I'm accustomed to.

Everything is normal. And I guess I'm making normal seem really damn exciting right now, but after last year, normal is a really cool thing for me.

Every mistake that I make, we're paying for, ... It's a corner you try not to back yourself into, because you tend to pitch tentative, and I can't do that. I left two balls up in the zone, splits. One was the double off the wall. Another was up.

I'm nervous, anxious. It's been two years since I've been the guy I was. Until I do what I did before, there's a lot of questions.