Bret Boone
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"Bret Robert Boone" is a former Major League Baseball second baseman. During his career Boone was a three-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star, four-time Gold Glove winner, and two-time Silver Slugger Award winner. He is a member of the Boone family, one of the most recognizable families in baseball.

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I've got four months of hard [weight-]lifting ahead of me, ... I've been keeping up, eating right. But sitting around instead of playing I feel soft. That will change.

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Now I've got to go out and give myself the best chance possible to live up to my intention.

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I'm getting a little of the hunger to play ball back.

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I want to play again; I intend to play again.

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I know I have something left, ... And I know talk is cheap. As long as the idea is burning in my mind — and it is — that I can still play, I've got to do it. But I can't just show up and assume all of what I had is still there.

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I don't know where my brain was. Somewhere it never was before. Well, I'm back from outer space.

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[They could become only the third team in major league history to win 90 games one season and lose 100 games the next.] This is like Groundhog Day , ... I don't mean to make light of what we're going through, but it keeps happening.

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I'm prepared for this; I know what it will take, because I've had a weird career full of ups and downs.

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I'm going to give this everything I've got, go at it full force. I expect to go out and have a great season. When I'm back next year and I don't have that feeling, I'll go home. And no one will have to tell me. I'll know. I'll go home.

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