"I didn't have any warning. It was running fine. Then it was dead."— Force on his 193rd final round experience after losing to former protégé T. Pedregon
"I heard him out there and I saw him put a fender on me at about 800 feet. In this class that's usually not a good thing. But the cars have to run to 1,320 feet and I guess his fuse was a little short.”— T. Pedregon on getting past Force late in the run when the blower belt snapped on Force’s engine
"Has anybody out there ever wanted to beat their boss? This trophy is for you. Where I grew up in Southern California, when I was a teenager, I used to watch John Force in that Hot 'n Juicy car under the lights. He's probably one of the guys that kind of drove me into racing. It was great working for him for all of those years and I learned a lot. I hope I make him proud. I'd never rub it in because I love him, and he knows that, but we beat him and this is a good day for the Q team."— T. Pedregon again, on the extra satisfaction of winning over his former teammate and boss
"This program's all about sending Young Life kids to camp, and every round we win we send a kid to camp, so we sent four kids to camp today. That's about $2,000 out of my pocket, but I'm glad to do it."— Mike Edwards referring to his sponsor after beating fellow veteran racer Larry Morgan with a holeshot in the final round
“We obviously had a car that was happy yesterday and it became unhappy today, so we've got to figure out what we did wrong."— Greg Anderson on slowing down in Saturday’s qualifying sessions after setting both ends of the track records with a pole-sitting 6.692/206.23 in Friday night’s attempt
"I know how to win this thing. First, I've got to have great lights. Next I've got to run perfect races and anytime I don't I've got to have a lot of luck.”— Jason Line laying out his raceday strategy after qualifying 8th
"I don't like that stuff. I'd rather just get it in on Friday and work on the tune-up on Saturday. Coming into the final round not qualified is a nail-bitter, so it's a good thing my dad wasn't here because he doesn't have any nails left."— Richie Stevens Jr. after getting into the field at 13th in the final session
“Nobody is showing that they can win repeatedly, not because everybody's doing a bad job but because everybody's doing a good job.”— Anderson after a first-round loss to Steve Schmidt, on the tremendous parity currently existing in the Pro Stock ranks
"We had a bad day."— Jim Yates after losing by .0003 against Stevens Jr. in round one
"There's not much you can do when a guy cuts a light like that.”— Erica Enders on the .002 reaction by Edwards in his first-round win over her
"It was a good, close drag race, but close in the wrong direction.”— Kurt Johnson on coming up .005 short to Dave Connolly in round two
“We should have won that race, and I feel like I let David (Nickens, crew chief) down because he gave me a car to win."— Stevens Jr. after losing to a holeshot by Edwards in the second round
