Jimmy Piersall Quotes

If you want to talk to me, you`ll have to put out that cigarette.

I didn`t get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, You`re too ornery to die.

I didn`t mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.

Nutrition makes me puke.

I`ve had 117 fights and that`s the first time I`ve ever won.

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

I`m the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I`m doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

You touch me and I`ll kick you in the rear.

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.