David Murdoch
David Murdoch
David Murdochis a Scottish curler from Lockerbie. As the Scotland skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions. Representing Great Britain, he has been skip at three Winter Olympics, Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal...
ProfessionCurler
Date of Birth17 April 1978
canada defeating far nation ourselves pride scottish sure
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.
canada defeating nation
Defeating such a big curling nation as Canada, it's colossal.
force nation
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.
last might since win worlds year
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.
bit bronze came given great last medal week win wrong
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.
ends games hundred played
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.
days
You get days like that and you've just got to take it on the chin.
beating capable confidence days ends everybody gotten played result shown
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.
achieving biggest chance dream focused forward game looked medal mind revenge shot totally
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.
consistent erase good icing last memories year
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.
hard shows together train work
It shows what you can do if you really train hard and work together as a team.
obviously ourselves owe playing
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.
camp days excellent few five forward four games holding intensive looking practice training venue wait
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.
bit european fine improvement robin round section third tournament
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.