John Hickenlooper Quotes

When the big games come, I show up.

I've been an athlete and competitor my whole life, and there's nothing more that I get off on than competition.

If you're athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It's a mindset.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.

I hustle, I run down the line, I do whatever I can to win ball games. Those are the only things we can control as baseball players.

Even if we don't play fantastically, with good passing and precision and finesse, the most important thing is to win.

I focus on playing football, and there are many battles you have to think about and which must be won.

I was born to play baseball.

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.

I let my racket do the talking.

During the season, you just grind, it's a cat-and-mouse game.

When you are a professional, you go into the next game wanting to win.

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

Baseball is just a game you go out every single day and try to win, go in the cage every day and stick to your routine and try not to be results-based, even though that's what the game is based on.

I like a little pressure. That's how football goes.

There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.