(Tobias Schiegl, with regard to the website of the International Luge Federation, FIL, where the "Schiegl-brothers" were mentioned. Tobias and Markus Schiegl are cousins)
"We realised that no-one of us is any faster down the track not wishing a 'good morning' to our team-mates."
(European champion Natalie Geisenberger with regard to the competitive situation among the German women's lugers)
"Luging and singing – neither can be forced."
(Austria's head coach René Friedl during an interview in Igls on Austria's TV station ORF)
„Experience is the sum of all errors“
(Tobias Wendl, together with his partner Tobias Arlt, had to bow to old hands Patric Leitner-Alexander Resch as well as André Florschuetz-Torsten Wustlich during the Olympic team selection process)
„A second place isn't really that bad. The 22 other competitors would have been happy to have earned this position."
(Two-time World runner-up Natalie Geisenberger after her fourth second place in the fifth event of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series in Koenigssee)
„Yes. Why not ?“
(Andi Langenhan's answer after his second World Cup victory in Oberhof if he thought it was justified to be now reckoned as an "insider tip" at the Olympic Winter Games)
