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“It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.” (Murphy Graeme)
“No one man is superior to the game.” (Murphy Graeme)
“All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.” (Murphy Graeme)
It wasn’t the prettiest game for us offensively. But the pitching, wow. They were awesome. (Murphy Graeme)
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It’s our jobs to go out and play hard when you’re wearing a big league uniform. We have five games left and we’re going to go out there and bust our butts just like we have all year. (Murphy Graeme)
I couldn’t make that adjustment (earlier in the season) to get through a game. The good thing (Wednesday) is, I made adjustments. I wasn’t perfect, but it was something and I was able to keep the game from getting out of hand. (Murphy Graeme)
I have struggled before like this in the minor leagues. The difference is that major-league hitters are better and don’t miss mistakes. (Murphy Graeme)
We’re playing terrible. It’s disheartening. You’re close to being in a race and playing terrible. It’s not very fun. (Murphy Graeme)
Actually, he’s surprised me. I know veteran players can pretty much just get through training camp and turn it on the first week. I didn’t know if he could do that. But he’s shown that he can. (Murphy Graeme)
From what I know about him, talking to him and everything, he’s just a game player, (Murphy Graeme)
He does stuff like that all the time. (Murphy Graeme)
He would always have his head down in the huddle, looking at that wristband of his all the time. Now, he has his head up. He’s confident; he understands what’s going on. (Murphy Graeme)
He’s the best player I ever played with. I wanted to make sure I took it all in. (Murphy Graeme)
I always felt we needed to play more in games and even in practice. As a veteran, I also realize you want to go into the season healthy. That’s why I’m glad it’s the coach’s job. (Murphy Graeme)
I don’t know if there’s another back in this league that’s that fast down the sideline. (Murphy Graeme)
I don’t know if you call it giving up on the run. We knew if they put that safety down (on the line of scrimmage), we were going to try to throw the ball, and we did. We put up 31 points and over 300 yards passing, so it wasn’t a bad decision. (Murphy Graeme)
I don’t think we helped Tommy (Maddox) because we couldn’t run the ball well. (Murphy Graeme)
I don’t think, right now, we’re the most confident team. (Murphy Graeme)
I expected (Lions president) Matt Millen to come in and do a great job. He’s a great football guy. I just think things haven’t gone his way with some draft picks. (Murphy Graeme)
I felt all along going into training camp we have four great backs. Two of them are down right now, so we still have two left. (Murphy Graeme)
I had to treat it as if they were just another team in free agency. I think, more than anything, the day we knew there wasn’t a deal there was just a lot of uncertainty in my head because free agency brings a lot of uncertainty. You really don’t have any idea where you’re going to go. (Murphy Graeme)
I talked to him on the sideline and I kind of got a sense that this might be his last game. As much as I think he’d like to come back, I think he realizes there is not a whole lot left in the tank after 13,000 yards. It’s tough for me to think about going through this whole thing again. That’s why you have to take some time. You take a month or two and evaluate as soon as the emotion is out of the way. (Murphy Graeme)
I tell him all the time, ‘Play your game, don’t stay in the pocket for us,’ (Murphy Graeme)
I think right now we played two teams that hadn’t necessarily played their best football, that’s for sure, (Murphy Graeme)
I‘m certainly in shock. We didn’t handle the ball very well there at the end and didn’t even give ourselves a chance to kick a field goal. That’s definitely bad football. (Murphy Graeme)
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