Quotes by Pierre Lueders

“Weve been doing a bit of that, too. Weve gone to a new sled and back to the old one in two-man. Weve had another set of runners.”

“I would think most teams are a little worried now. We won the world championships last year. They know Canada is a force to be reckoned with when were on.”

“Im really happy we are now consistently in the hunt for a podium spot. We only have a couple of races before the Olympics so it is time to get things in gear.”

“Its the first time in my career that Ive won both the two-man and the four-man in the same weekend. Ive done it before and that was in Calgary in 1997, but never in Europe before.”

“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.”

“I was really thinking about it after the Calgary World Cup (in November) that this was it, that there was nothing but gloom and doom on the horizon. But I guess one thing that Ive learned over this whole thing is that our system in Canada can work.”

“Patience, I guess. We still have some time.”

“Yeah, it was a nice drive. We drove for my first back-to-back wins in Europe to the site of where I won my first four-man race last year.”

“That was probably the best combination until this one. And that one would have been first-second if I hadnt fallen into the sled, slipping trying to get in, then banging into the wall on the first turn.”

“The fact that weve been given a chance to go there as a team and compete as a team as we have all year, is really what its all about this year for me.”