Quotes from “The Lance Armstrong Story - Stop at
Nothing”
BBC Documentary Aired on July 6 2014
Betsy Andreu who was the first to expose Lance Armstrong
said of Armstrong: “His Modus Operandi ‘Don't attack the message, attack the
messenger’.”
Jeffery M. Tillotson, lawyer, “Great Liar Lance Armstrong:
‘I never doped. I passed every test. And anyone who challenges me, I am
currently suing and are proving they are lying.”
“They were very mean and very dismissive of Emma O’Reilly,
as they were really almost of all the women that testified against Armstrong.”
Emma O’Reilly, Armstrong’s former masseuse,“You don't talk
about people like that.. By calling me those names. Calling me basically an
alcoholic prostitute. Its just attacking me personally, but it’s not addressing
the points I brought up.”
Jeffery M. Tillotson, “Either everyone who I had talked to,
and all the evidence I had gathered, and all the scientists and other people
were liars, which I found frankly were impossible, or Lance approached
basically clinically a sociopath, someone able to do wrong without remorse, or
care who they hurt in the process. The former was unpalatable, and the latter
was scary. That we were litigating with someone who would do anything to
prevail.”
Floyd Landis said of Armstrong’s cancer campaign: “The
Longer it went on the more impressed I am that Lance could maintain a story
like that that was nearly 100% fabricated, and still live such an obnoxious
life, and not even tried to hide it.”
David Walsh, journalist, quotes: “Lance came back, because
he couldn't stay away. Why couldn't he stay away? Because its like the oldest
theme in Hollywood that you ever come across: The Jewel thief, the bank robber the
assassin. They do their jobs brilliantly. They win every time. They kill all
the people they should kill, they get all the jewels they should get, they get
all the money from the bank they should get. Somebody comes and says, One More
Job.”
Speaking of Floyd Landis, one-time Tour De France Champion
who maintained his innocence of doping, “And Lance and Bruyneel, both kindred
spirits, in terms of having no emotional intelligence, decide they don't want
to have anything to do with Floyd, he is just a loser, he got caught. They
don't realize they are actually handling a ticking bomb here. Floyd has offered
them the chance to diffuse the bomb. To just take out that little pin or
whatever, give him a little, small job in the team, everything is OK. They tell
him to get lost and the bomb blows up in their faces.”
“You know the information kind of started trickling out of
me, and then after 15 minutes or so it just poured out of me. I don't think
they were expecting any kind of testimony like they got. Lance Armstrong didn't
appreciate that. A few months later I was out at dinner with some friends, and
he must have eyes on me because he had people contact me, and let him know where
I was, and he you know, approached me, and tried to intimidate me. He said he
was going to make life living hell both in the court room and out of the court
room.”
“It goes to show the power that Armstrong has. He got a Federal
Investigation shut down, despite having all that information out there, and all
that evidence out there.” “I was so disappointed in the whole system, you
know.this corruption can happen, and, you know, favours can be granted.”
Tarvis Tygard picks up the baton:”…This was not just about
Armstrong getting away with doping for a few years.. He (Armstrong) was the
boss, the evidence is clear. He was one of the ring leaders of this conspiracy,
that pulled off this grand heist, using tens of millions of tax-payers dollars,
that defrauded millions of sport fans and his fellow competitors.”
“Lance immediately went on the attack, immediately sued them
in his home court, and immediately started saying, ‘you saw it as a terrible,
bad, kangaroo organization.’. I thought, here we go again. He is going to
bloody them up. He is going to walk away from this.” “Almost every turn the
lobbyists for Armstrong and his criminal defence attorney, and others, want to
bankrupt us and take us down. Whether it was claiming to the world media he had
not authority or we were on witch hunts or the jurisdiction didn't rest with
us, there were numerous efforts by them to ensure this information never got
out.”
“He is like the guy
who robs a bank, and then says, ‘Oops, forgot to frisk the tellers for any
money they might have in their pocket’. So he essentially wanted it all.”
