Curt Schilling Last Quotations

We're playing in an environment in the last decade that's been tailored to produce offensive numbers anyway, with the smaller ballparks, the smaller strike zone and so forth,

I feel great today, ... I'm not sore, my ankle feels great. I haven't felt like this since last April, before I hurt my ankle. I don't have any limitations from a preparation standpoint or a work standpoint.

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 don't think it's any one thing. It happened at the same time last year.

Last year had something to do with it, getting kicked around as much as I did. You get tired of it.

Last year had something to do with it.

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 wasn't trying to hit him in the head. I don't play the game that way. I've got to pitch in. This is the only place I'll get comfortable doing it, making it part of my game plan and taking it into the season. I promise you there are very few people in this world who have stepped in the box in the last seven or eight years against Pedro Martinez that haven't thought about the fastball in. I'm definitely not one of those guys from a pitching standpoint because I've had so much success away.

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.

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.

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 not thinking about the things that I was thinking about last year.

I?m 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.

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. But there's something you can do about that as a pitcher and you've got to be proactive and do it.

I had a feeling coming into this game, that if they watched my last start, which a lot of teams do,

I'll tell you this, ... If I go out every time from here on out and feel like I did last night, I'll win more than I lose. And when we get to October, I'll be the pitcher I was last year and the year before.

he said. ''And when we get to October I'll be the pitcher I was last year.

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.

This is a good win, this was a great win for us. I'd be real curious to see how many games we won last year scoring two runs.