Quick collection of awesome Walsh quotes from the CN interview:
"the people who’ve read the book have been very complimentary and the people who haven’t read the book have been much less complimentary"
"I’m pretty certain that if anyone comes to it with an open mind, then it will contribute a little bit to their understanding of what Team Sky is about"
"I can tell you now that it’s not a possibility because the people who are the pillars of the management, people like Brailsford, Tim Kerrison, Rod Ellingworth, the lead doctor Alan Farrell and the lead carer Mario Pafundi, they’re just not those kind of people."
"If somebody told me now that Rod Ellingworth was actually secretly bringing drugs into the team, I’d say that’s an absolute lie. Why? Because I know the man."
"The common thing about those who are sceptical and don’t believe is that they compare Team Sky with US Postal because of their success, right?"
"I do think it’s possible to find out [if a team is clean] and that’s what journalism should be about."
"We knew at US Postal that Armstrong always wanted a room alone, perhaps for good reason. Chris Froome preferred to share it with his mate Richie Porte."
"Now imagine Chris Froome in a room with Richie Porte – can you imagine Froome was doping and Porte wasn’t?"
"I think your question is an absolutely valid one and the answer is no, I’m not intimately acquainted with how other coaches in other teams operate."
"“That stuff is no good for you. We’re here to eat the right food, and you bringing that to the table is lowering the dietary and nutritional standard.” I just thought that kind of attitude was impressive."
"Of course it doesn’t mean they’re clean, but tell me something that indicates they’re dirty."
"What evidence do you have that they used Gonzalez’s death as a pretext (for hiring Leinders)?"
" I do want to believe"
"So even though I wanted to believe, I don’t think my eyes were closed. I just felt Froome in particular is a really interesting man. I think in terms of his character, he’s a pretty special fellow."
"I don’t want to be providing an explanation because I don’t know. I absolutely don’t know."
"I’ve seen what the exercise physiologist at Barloworld has done and his view is that there is certainly nothing that Froome is doing now that is that different."
"I think it’s not good enough to say to somebody ‘did you dope?’ and that person says ‘no, I didn’t dope’ and you accept their word and that’s it. You feel you don’t need to go any further than that."
"I think Dave Brailsford is trying to make the best of it, get the guys to sign the form so that legally they’re covered but is the team forensically researching the background of all the guys it employs? Clearly not."
"I didn’t go to follow Team Sky as a fan, I went to follow them as a journalist."
"The easiest thing in the world to do is to sit on the fence, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and let you the reader make up your mind. I don’t believe in that."
And my personal favourite:
"And I thought that’s where we’re at now, with this kind of nonsense being peddled as journalism."
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