"I'm pretty tired of finishing laps that I thought I won, only to find out I didn't. It's happened a lot this year, and it's not any fun to have your emotions shoot up and then get knocked down like that. Like I said, this one was about as close as it gets, but they got there first and we go home. It may not seem fair, but it's drag racing." — Arend on leading Jack Beckman at every interval in round one —except the one that counts the most
“The thing made a big move toward the wall and you need to wrestle it back in there and I didn't do it. So, it actually hit the rev limiter further down track and spun (the tires). I don't know that it decided the race, but it stings.” — Beckman on his loss in round two to Tony Bartone
“I heard him, but didn’t see him until I approached the finish line, so I knew it was going to be a close race. Our incremental times were good until about the three-quarter mark when we lost a little traction and momentum.” — Cruz Pedregon on his second-round loss to Scelzi
“I just decided to stop being a pansy and it worked.” — Tim Wilkerson on putting a more aggressive tune-up in his car and making it to the semis before losing to Capps
"I've been praising the Countdown and, even though it looked like we weren't going to make it after Dallas, I was still praising it, even though people were e-mailing me and I was reading articles about how terrible it was that I had my points taken away. I thought it was exciting, but I also thought that if there was any team in Funny Car, and not taking anything away from any of the guys, we deserved a shot at it. We needed to be in there. But you're not going to cry about the points and the structure because we knew it going in.” — Capps on the NHRA’s new championship-deciding format, after he squeaked in to the final four with a final-round appearance against Scelzi
"I just talked to Ace for a second before coming up here. We had lane choice, we went back to that left lane. It treated us well and it wasn't the lane choice for all categories, or nitro at least. And we stuck with the left lane, and as soon as I got back to the trailer he said 'I should've swapped lanes.' He got up there and he felt we should be OK going down it. He hates to smoke the tires. And that's not how he wanted to lose.” — Capps again, on his crew chief Ed “Ace” McCulloch after their loss in the final round
"The track was hot, it was pretty tricky. It's hard because you qualify in such different conditions and you go into race day kind of guessing. We didn't run what we wanted to run, but I guess we ran good enough." — Scelzi after winning his fourth of four final rounds he’s reached this season
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