"Jason had a fantastic year, and I had a good year even though he knocked me around pretty good. Head-to-head he flat out mopped me up, so it meant something to me to draw a little scratch on him there in the final. It's not going to make much of a difference in the outcome this year, but it makes me feel better in the short run.”— Anderson on defeating teammate Jason Line in the final to earn his 43rd career win
“I didn't do a very good job of driving or I think my run would have been better.”— Line after going a track record 6.663 seconds to earn his seventh top qualifying position this year
“Tomorrow, I'll take my foot off the clutch, cross my fingers, and hopefully the light will come on in our lane.”— Kurt Johnson after qualifying fourth
“You have to get qualified before you can race.”— Mike Edwards after qualifying sixth, on joining only Anderson, Line and Allen Johnson in having made the field at every race this year
"It seems the left side is slightly better here but that can always change, even during the race. The nice thing is that we have lane choice in the first round so we can pick which side we want. The trick will be to maintain lane choice as eliminations move along."— Jeg Coughlin Jr. after moving up to number seven in the final qualifying round
"The car went left at the hit of the throttle and got out of the groove. There isn't much of a groove here anyway. It's disappointing because we had run in the top four or five all weekend and now we lost lane choice for the first round.”— Dave Connolly after falling from fifth to ninth in the last qualifying session
"We felt we needed to make changes and we did—to the clutch, transmission, rear end and carburetors. When you do that, you are likely to get the tune-up right about half the time.”— Jim Yates after grabbing the final qualifying position by just three thousandths in the last session on Saturday
"The right lane at Pomona is an Achilles heel for me."— Line after getting a little loose off the launch and falling to Anderson in the final
"Jason won the championship last week in Vegas, so we were able to come in here and have fun and just race like weekend warriors with nothing to lose. It's cool that it came down to us in the final, and I'm glad the champ let me beat him. You don't get many chances to race like this at this level.”— Anderson enjoying the moment
