Todd Helton
Todd Helton
Todd Lynn Heltonis a former American professional baseball first baseman who played his entire 17-year career for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball. A five-time All-Star, four-time Silver Slugger, and three-time Gold Glove Award winner, Helton holds the Colorado Rockies club records for hits, home runs, doubles, walks, runs scored, runs batted in, games played, and total bases, among others...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 August 1973
CityKnoxville, TN
chances couple help hits
They had some big hits and, of course, I had a couple of chances to help us out and didn't do it. It's frustrating.
bullpen defense good happen winning
That's how we've been winning - good defense and the bullpen doing a job, ... It didn't happen tonight.
compete found game good opening win
Any win is a good win, especially on Opening Day, but this is a game where we found a way to win. If we are going to compete this year, that's the kind of game we have to win.
bullpen compete found
The bullpen and J.J. (Jason Jennings) got that win. We just found a way to win. If we're going to compete this year, that's the way we're going to have to win.
ability chance everybody game hard nobody plays teams
I think we've got a chance to be a lot better this year. If everybody just plays to their ability. Nobody really has to go off, nobody has to do anything crazy. There are going to be teams better than us, talent-wise, but we are going to play the game hard and we never give up.
negative watch
I watch the film, so I know what I've done off a guy. I don't look at it as a positive, just like I don't look at it as a negative if I haven't done well off a guy.
hope resting tells
I will play when he tells me, but I hope I go out and play well enough that he doesn't think about resting me.
behind head kid showing start stays teaching technique
His technique is flawless. He's short, quick. His head does not move. He stays behind the baseball. If you were teaching a swing, I would start by showing the kid Bonds' swing.
glad learned
Hopefully, we all learned something here. I'm glad he didn't take me out.
anyone fear
He doesn't fear anything or anyone when he's out there.
afraid gone guys helps lost
It helps out a lot, ... If they'd gone out and stunk, it would have been very disappointing. Obviously, we would have lost a lot more games. But these guys are not afraid of anything.
few frame helps mind positive season
It's no big deal. You just want to have a positive frame of mind going into the season and it always helps to go out and get a few hits.
analyze goes half instead letting problem sit talk time win
I have no idea. I don't sit and analyze how we get here, why we win somewhere. That's half the problem with the game. Every time something goes on, you've got to talk about it instead of letting it play out.
ability allow ball crystal players west win
I have no crystal ball to allow me to say we are going to win the (National League) West or World Series. A lot of things have to go right . . . but I can say we have players with the ability to win.