Tom Boonen Quotes


The world's is the only race that matter for me. My goal here at the Vuelta is sharpen my fitness. If I win a stage, great, but the most important thing at the Vuelta is to leave stronger than I came. - Tom Boonen


The financial side of it is pleasant of course, but that is not the main reason for me leaving my parental home in Balen. I would like to lead a bit of a normal life again. It will be nice to walk down the street without people staring at me. Every day there's a dozen of interested fans at my front door; it's getting too much. I'm getting a bit fed up with having to tell the same story twenty times a day to people I don't know at all, or having to listen to their stories. Monaco will be a better place for me to train also, in winter I often don't have the courage to go out in the bad weather, in the South training will be easier. - Tom Boonen


The credit goes to my team-mates for allowing me to have a good day in the stage. My team is what you call a dream team. Each one of us supports the other fully. - Tom Boonen


The conditions were very difficult, but I had ticked off this stage and it's great to have finally won it. - Tom Boonen


The Belgian riders did everything for me... I didn't have to work hard until the end. At the finish, Mario Aerts gave me perfect position. - Tom Boonen


On the last lap it was very important that several members of the Belgium team were always up at the front. - Tom Boonen


It's okay that the others are ahead of me here. It doesn't worry me. I really didn't try in this Vuelta. I only came to the Vuelta to recuperate my fitness and I leave here at about 80 percent fitness. If I was here at top fitness I might not have reached the peak at the world's. At Madrid, I want to be 110 percent fitness and I didn't want to peak too early. - Tom Boonen


It's OK that the others are ahead of me here. It doesn't worry me. I really didn't try in this Vuelta... I'm only here to prepare for the world championships. That's the only thing that matters to me right now. - Tom Boonen


It's good to have won that stage because now we can relax and take it easy until the end of Paris-Nice. - Tom Boonen


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