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"They changed a lot of things heading into the last run, stuff that I'm not really privy to. I think they know I'm nervous enough as it is, so I don't think they want to tell me a bunch of unnecessary information. Whatever they do to it doesn't really matter; it's my job to get it down the track."— Melanie Troxel on not being in the show until her last qualifying attempt earned the 7th-place starting position
"He hasn't exactly been on a hot streak lately."— Morgan Lucas liking his chances after qualifying 13th to face Schumacher in round one
“It's disappointing.”— Hillary Will on her 14th-place qualifying position
"Wheelspeed is what we seem to be missing.”— Scott Weis on missing the raceday show in Houston
"After the engine was started and the burnouts were completed we had to wait for the Millican team to get set at the Christmas Tree. Every second that a Top Fuel motor runs, it's sucking down fuel. Fuel is weight and with the tank up in the nose of the car it's important that we have at least as much as our competitor when the light turns green. With that delay we knew the car would be lighter in the nose than theirs but didn't feel it would be enough to overcome the downforce created by the front wing. As it turned out, it was and caused a loss of steering control, so across the centerline we went."— Fuller on his disqualification from the first round against Clay Millican
"I'm not the guy to paint a happy picture at this point."— Larry Dixon after losing to McClenathan in round two
"We aren't griping one bit—compared to what happened at Gainesville.”— Millican after being ousted in the semis by Troxel, referring to his DNQ at the previous event in Florida
"The car kind of bogged down a little bit from the hit, but overall it was a clean pass."— Troxel on coming up just .0236 of a second short of Bernstein in her 5th consecutive final-round appearance
"I keep waiting to wake up from this and realize it's not real.”— Troxel on her early-season success
“Tim [Richards, crew chief] tuned us to a 4.51 in the first round and I knew he had a handle on this racetrack. Once he gets like that he's very tough to beat. It was like I had a bracket car today."— Bernstein after defeating David Grubnic, Lucas, McClenathan, and Troxel with his slowest pass being a 4.558 in the semis