Patrik Sinkewitz

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

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

— Patrik Sinkewitz

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

— Patrik Sinkewitz

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

— Patrik Sinkewitz

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008,…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

I rubbed the contents of one bag onto my upper arm on the evening of June 7, just before I went to…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races.…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

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…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

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

— Patrik Sinkewitz

The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on…

— Patrik Sinkewitz