Character Quotes by 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.

— Jimmy Piersall

Nutrition makes me puke.

— 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.…

— 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

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

— Jimmy Piersall

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

— Jimmy Piersall

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

— Jimmy Piersall

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

— Jimmy Piersall

If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.

— Jimmy Piersall

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

— Jimmy Piersall

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

— Jimmy Piersall