Jimmy Piersall Quotes


"If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette."
- Jimmy Piersall
(Related: Talk, Want)

"We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on."
- Jimmy Piersall
"Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened."
- Jimmy Piersall
"I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'"
- Jimmy Piersall
(Related: Years)

"I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day."
- Jimmy Piersall
(Related: Day, Hurt)

"I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story."
- Jimmy Piersall
(Related: Mind)

"I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984."
- Jimmy Piersall
"Nutrition makes me puke."
- Jimmy Piersall
"I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy."
- Jimmy Piersall
"I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won."
- Jimmy Piersall
(Related: Time, First)