48 Quotes by Billy Butler

K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.

You can't really explain why things happen.

I wasn't going to be drafted to steal bases at 18.

The questions don't happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don't think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program.

When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until that point, he pushed me to keep playing, and when I turned 13, I didn't want to do anything else. He was just there with me at the cage every day because I wanted him to go with me and throw to me and work on what I needed to work on.

If I could be half of what Mike Sweeney was, I'll be happy with it.

I've always had a bigger body, even when I was 18.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.