Roberto Heras Stage Quotations

There's still the stage to Lagos and that will be the key stage, because it's a hard climb and there you can't just follow the wheel.

Once more, the team's work deserves a 10 out of 10, ... My team-mates have been sensational and I felt good. The stage was very quick with a lot of attacks but we controlled them without any problem.

Pajares was the stage of my life, the best one I've ever done in any Tour of Spain.

I wasn't looking for either the stage win or the lead, more to open up a time gap on the other favorites.

The Colladiella is a very difficult mountain and we knew it, ... In strategic terms the stage went perfectly. I was conscious about the fact that I took great risks when I went downhill. But the point is that if you want something, you have to take your chances.

The stage characteristics werent for a climber, but its the last week of the Vuelta and strength is very important. A specialist like Plaza won, but I had the mentality to win. I almost won, it was so close. But Im confident thinking of the future because of what happened today.

It's an important stage with a very demanding and hard route.

There are many stages left on the race, but he made a strong impact, a morale blow to the rest. So far, Liberty and Heras have demonstrated superiority.

Today's stage was probably less difficult than that of yesterday. We let a breakaway go and the team has worked very well, and with a lot of discipline behind. No day is easy, but today our rivals probably paid a bit for the beating that they gave to themselves yesterday, because at this point of the race, it is difficult to recover a bit more. These two stages were the major obstacles that we still had, although there are still two more stages left, plus the time trial. Roberto continues to look very good to me, and he comes to the chrono with an advantage that will allow him to do it with more tranquility.