Billy Butler Quotes

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

The more pitches you see, the more dangerous you become.

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it's information.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

I've learned my tricks watching videos on the Internet with friends. I'm always trying to copy what I've seen at home, what I learned from my friends. But you have to repeat it again and again to get it right on the field.

You try to get mental reps through the eyes of others, then it's your job to kind of get your reps through your eyes. So that's kind of what I do.

When you have watched someone long enough, you know what they can do.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.