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
ball hard moves threw throws tough
He throws hard, the ball moves everywhere. He threw a hard slider. He's tough to hit.
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.
face hard minutes rather smile takes walk
I'd rather make that walk when we won, ... It's kind of hard 2 minutes after the game's over and we lose. It takes a little while to take (a loss) off. It's kind of hard to walk around there with a smile on your face when you just lost, but you got to do it for the fans.
baseball hard-work degrees
Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.
home needed played premium team threw
Still, he threw out 50 home runs, ... and he played his best, at a premium position, when his team needed him most.
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.
fastest glad guy
I'm glad he didn't take me out. I never want to come out of the game. But I'm not the fastest guy in the world.
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.
good hit home hook promise swing trying
I'm not trying (to hit home runs). I promise I'm just not trying to do too much, and it's yielded some pretty good results. When I go up there and try to swing hard, if I do hit it, I'll hook it foul.
compete knowing
They are not kids, and they are not inexperienced anymore. They have to go into the off-season knowing they can compete here.
attitude develop good start win
We need to get off to a good start and develop an attitude that we are going to win so we don't have that 'here-we-go-again' attitude.
reason
Better be. That's the reason we put up with this year.
good halfway year
It would have been a good year to be halfway decent. Any other year, we're in it right now.