Jimmy Piersall
Jimmy Piersall
James Anthony Piersallis an American former baseball center fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseballfor five teams, from 1950 through 1967. Piersall is best known for his well-publicized battle with bipolar disorder that became the subject of the book and movie Fear Strikes Out...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth14 November 1929
CountryUnited States of America
american-athlete mind
I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.
american-athlete
You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.
american-athlete fights time
I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.
american-athlete best pennant won
We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.
american-athlete
If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.
nutrition culinary puke
Nutrition makes me puke.
bypass feels
I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
sick people forever
... 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.
understanding therapy
There is no better therapy than understanding.
years doctors ornery
I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.
character logos wells
If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.
crazy bird guy
I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
hurt next-day next
I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.
nuts best-things happened
Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.