"I kept thinking that eventually I was going to get an opportunity and stayed ready. That was the toughest part," Butler said. "I love the game. I want to help win like everybody else does. When you're excited and you don't get to play, you get down. You don't want to work out. You don't want to do anything because you feel like your opportunity isn't going to come. But it did. And that's what's crazy: I was ready."