Jimmy Piersall Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#7. There is no better therapy than understanding.

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#8. 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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#9. Nutrition makes me puke.

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

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

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

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#13. I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

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

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