David Murdoch Quotations

We've beaten all our opposition at different times, so we know we are capable of beating them on the day.

We are all very well and looking forward to it. We had a really excellent four or five days of intensive training and a few practice games at our holding camp in Lucerne in Switzerland. We just can't wait to get to the venue and get on the ice.

We are all getting on fine and our third place in the European Championships showed we can play well together. We topped the round robin section in that tournament and were a bit disappointed to end up with the bronze, but that was a marker and I'd like to think there's more improvement to come.

Last year was so disappointing. We just really wanted to erase those memories and it's been such a good year. We've been real consistent and this is just icing on the cake.

I think we just placed our stones better today. We never made a messy shot. We forced a lot of pressure on Canada.

It is hard to take because the chance was there. It will be with me for a long time but I am hoping we will get the chance to bury it at the next Olympics.

It is important to reuse our resources. If you don't recycle and reuse things, you may run out of them.

It feels fantastic to finally get started after all the build-up. We are not quite used to the ice yet but it was important to get a good start. When we've started well in the past, we have always done well.

I'm happy because I've got a great team behind me.

That's the last thing I'll be thinking about.

You know, you have games like that. It just didn't work out for us. We're still in the competition, so we don't want to beat ourselves up. We just got a little bit unlucky.

We really couldn't have done any more. We trained our hearts out and prepared as well as we could and came here and had some great performances and beat a lot of good teams but just never quite got the breaks.

You get games like that and you've just got to take it on the chin. We could have played a hundred ends and not get a result.

You get days like that and you've just got to take it on the chin.

Defeating such a big curling nation as Canada, it's colossal. As far as Scottish curling goes, it's huge. There's a lot of pride at stake, making sure we do ourselves justice.

Defeating such a big curling nation as Canada, it's colossal.

That's fine. It's what we expected. We get a chance to get our revenge on Finland. We are going in very confident. This is the biggest thing for our sport because we have got a chance of guaranteeing a medal and achieving something we have looked forward to for a long, long time. You just have to be totally focused on what you want to achieve. It is a game of curling and the important thing is not to let your mind wander. If you focus and make every shot your dream will come true.

The way things were going, I think we could have played 100 ends and not gotten a result here. When we play our best, we're capable of beating everybody here. I think that's shown in the stats, and there's still a lot of confidence in this team. You get days like that and you've just got to take it on the chin.

They're always a force. Canada's the most decorated nation in world curling. You always have to be up for them. They're the benchmark.

It's an old rivalry. It's been around for a long, long time. We're obviously playing for our country, but we owe it to ourselves to do this for each other.

It shows what you can do if you really train hard and work together as a team.

It's devastating. We wanted that bronze medal every bit as much as we wanted to win the semi-final. We had given some great performances over the last week but just came out on the wrong end of it.

This is just fantastic. I've always wanted, since I started curling, to win the worlds and after last year it was so disappointing I thought I might not get another opportunity.

I didn't enjoy losing last year. There's nothing I've got against the country (Canada). I'm doing this for myself, the team and for the coaches. We've put so much effort into it this year, committed so much time and days off, I think this team deserves a world title and hopefully we can deliver it.