Todd Helton Quotes (29 Quotes)

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.

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.

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.

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.

I didn't really know what to expect. I guess I expected to feel good and I did feel good.

I'd kill myself if I wasn't here and we started winning.

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.

That's how we've been winning - good defense and the bullpen doing a job, ... It didn't happen tonight.

Honest, I'm just trying not to do too much and it's yielded some pretty good results,

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.

With his players, Hurdle only talks about the good things, ... He tells you when she's diving down and getting coins at the bottom of the pool.

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.

It all kind of worked together. That's just the way hitting is. Everybody feeds off each other. One guy gets hot and everybody gets hot. We all started swinging better and we started winning games.

I could have moved, but it would have had to be years ago. Now I'm too old and set in my ways. It's a lot shorter run from the dugout to first than all the way out there in left field.

It's good to see, ... You always want to see the guys you're going to go with long term in there and see how it goes.

Time will tell but we definitely have the talent, but that doesn't mean nothing. We have to go out and win ball games. There are a lot of good players. The more experience everybody gets the better we are going to be.

There are no more excuses. It's time to put it on the line. It's time to win.

When I hit it I knew it was gone. I got all of it and it was a big hit at the time.

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.

It would have been a good year to be halfway decent, ... Any other year, we're in it right now.

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.

I got some good pitches to hit, but I tried to do a little too much.

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.

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.

We've seen some pretty good pitchers this year. And this is a young team. Many of them haven't seen pitchers like this.

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.

I don't see why not. He was starting to last year and he got hurt.

I told him that he has more facial hair than I do. Of course, I had to ask if he was really 12 years old.

I don't know what to expect. I don't know why baseball would make my stomach feel any worse than sitting on the couch. It's kind of weird not knowing what to expect. But I expect to feel good and I do feel good.