Patrik Quotes

#1. I rubbed the contents of one bag onto my upper arm on the evening of June 7, just before I went to bed. I thought: Well, it can't hurt. I flushed the packaging down the toilet.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#2. As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman ... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

John Knox

#3. I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#4. The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#5. I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#6. The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#7. what is possible for one is possible for all,

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!

Patrik Sinkewitz

#9. My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#10. Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

John Mellencamp

#11. I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#12. Even if you are a minority of one it does not make you wrong

George Orwell

#13. I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#14. The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me.

Patrik Baboumian

#15. It's possible that the name Bettini came up at some point during a conversation with the German Cycling Federation's anti-doping commission, but I certainly didn't claim that he gave me any drugs. They made that up. Bettini warned me: If you said that, then things could get dangerous for you.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#16. If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

Mourid Barghouti

#17. Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in the press, they didn't find any EPO or growth hormone.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#18. Riders called me up afterwards to say that they had had no other choice. I couldn't understand the way they changed their tune.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#19. Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#20. I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#21. They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.)

Susan Glaspell

#22. What makes human life
which is inseparable from this moment
so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Steve Hagen

#23. If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

Larry Ellison

#24. I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S

Patrik Sinkewitz

#25. I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#26. One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

Patrik Baboumian

#27. The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.

Patrik Sinkewitz