Bradford Files listened to Curt Schilling speak to the press this morning and has quotes:

"Let's be clear, if some people want to believe this was me taking advantage of the situation financially I wouldn't have done it here. I would have done it in at least two other places for $14 million. If I was going to sit my ass on the DL and collect a paycheck. I know that for a fact. People are going to believe what they believe. I was healthy at the time. I didn't feel great, but I felt like I was 40 or 41. I went through the physical, I had an MRI at the time as well. I did everything they asked, passed every test they asked me to take and I felt fine. If Theo tells you anything about our discussions and negotiations I think we were both very comfortable saying I want to go out, compete, be the ace of the staff for this final year and all the things that go with that."

Update: More from Schilling. The Globe wasn't invited to the party, but they saw the NESN tape:

"I'm obviously going to fall back on the guy (Morgan) who's already been down this path and who's always been right,'' Schilling said.

"....I immediately jumped on that when no one else was really offering me a difference, a change.''

It was at that point, he said, that the contract became an issue. "I think there was some belief on their end that I was going to go off and do my own thing and have surgery on my own,'' Schilling said, "or something like that. I immediately assured everybody that I was talking to I would never do that, No. 1, and No. 2, I couldn't do it legally, anyway.''

Schilling said he is following the Sox prescribed regimen "because I don't have any choice. If their course of action doesn't work I don't pitch this year, I might not ever pitch again.''

Schilling did not come right out and say the Sox doctors were wrong, but he called their judgment into question this way. "I think there's unspoken here that doctors have egos every bit as much as professional athletes. These are some of the top people in the world at what they do. I had three different doctors tell me three completely different things with three completely different courses of action. I'm obviously going to fall back on the guy who's already been down this path before.''