44 ordspråk av Pierre Lueders
Pierre Lueders
I've got two young guys ... and it's their first Olympics. I think maybe the first push, everybody was feeling a bit of the nerves. But in your first Olympics, you expect that.
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I've never competed in an event where it started snowing with a blizzard like this.
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If that's how they want to play, they can look at the time sheet after the second run. I'm getting tired of it. That was a little bit of motivation on the second run.
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It is the first time in two years that we drew the No. 1 start position, so we just told each other to set the time of the day and see if anyone can beat it.
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It's a long road he took to get here. That's why I was emotional. It just that it wasn't a normal road to get here. A couple weeks ago I didn't have a brakeman. Back home for Christmas, I kept thinking I might have to drive him to the airport in St. Moritz to fly home and watch the Olympics from there.
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It's like I tell little kids - cheaters never win.
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It's the first time in my career that I've won both the two-man and the four-man in the same weekend. I've done it before and that was in Calgary in 1997, but never in Europe before.
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Lascelles is a very unique individual. He's team-first and himself second. Sometimes that's very difficult to find in bobsled. He raises the competitiveness of all his team-mates.
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No one remembers how you finished in the World Cups in an Olympic season.
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Patience, I guess. We still have some time.
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Right now the race is over and we have another race to focus on.
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Right now, the race is over.
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That was probably the best combination until this one. And that one would have been first-second if I hadn't fallen into the sled, slipping trying to get in, then banging into the wall on the first turn.
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That's always important. But we still have two races here in St. Moritz and next week in Altenberg (Germany), so I'm not looking too far down the road.
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The fact that we've been given a chance to go there as a team and compete as a team as we have all year, is really what it's all about this year for me.
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