Jimmy Piersall Quotes

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

  Jimmy Piersall

• 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.

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• Nutrition makes me puke.

  Jimmy Piersall

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

  Jimmy Piersall

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

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

  Jimmy Piersall

• I didn’t mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.

  Jimmy Piersall

• I didn’t get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

  Jimmy Piersall

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

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Jimmy Piersall (11)

Birth:	14th November, 1929
Death:	3rd June, 2017
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

James Anthony Piersall was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. He was an American baseball center fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for five teams, from 1950 through 1967. He was best known for his well-publicized battle with bipolar disorder that became the subject of a book and a film, Fear Strikes Out. In 2010, he was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame. He is the author of book entitled Fear Strikes Out (memoir).

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