Piersall Quotes

#1. 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

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

Jimmy Piersall

#3. It is a unique challenge for a woman to demonstrate that they can lead, that they will be strong, that they can handle crisis, and that they gain respect.

Wendy Greuel

#4. I'm gonna walk out of here not touching you and the last thing you're gonna hear from me is that I love you, baby. Fuck, I so fuckin' love you.

Kristen Ashley

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

Jimmy Piersall

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

Jimmy Piersall

#7. The here and the beyond are enough, but there were a few angels for whom it was not enough: who demanded a third dimension
who sought fusions, communes, who ate each other and created sex.

Dale Pendell

#8. We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

Plautus

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

Jimmy Piersall

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

Jimmy Piersall

#11. Nutrition makes me puke.

Jimmy Piersall

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

Jimmy Piersall

#13. There is no better therapy than understanding.

Jimmy Piersall

#14. I would lose him a thousand lifetimes over if it meant I got the chance to love him a thousand times. And have him love me back.

If only for a little while.

A.J. Compton

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

Jimmy Piersall

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

Jimmy Piersall

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

Jimmy Piersall

#18. Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.

Wendy Piersall

#19. I don't think the Cure liked us. I think they resented us in some way, because we'd managed to stay cool, credible, and independent and they'd, well, sort of sold out a bit. The problem was on their side; it wasn't on our side. But I think they thought, Wish we were Joy Division.

Peter Hook

#20. If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#21. 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

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

Jimmy Piersall