Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Jimmy Piersall

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Jimmy Piersall.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Jimmy Piersall

James Anthony Piersall was an American baseball center fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for five teams, from 1950 through 1967. Piersall was best known for his well-publicized battle with bipolar disorder that became the subject of a book and a film, Fear Strikes Out.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.
I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear. — © Jimmy Piersall
You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.
Nutrition makes me puke.
Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.
We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.
If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.
I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'
I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.
I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.
There is no better therapy than understanding.
I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.
If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick. — © Jimmy Piersall
... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.
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