"You never know what's going to happen up there. They do have a red light on that Christmas tree that you have to worry about, and the guy in the other lane is always after your throat.” – Dave Connolly expressing caution after earning his second number-one start of the year with a 6.725-seconds pass at a track-record 205.57 mph
"We made good runs today, but they just weren't fast enough for me. For some reason, we seem to be down on power.” – Kurt Johnson after qualifying 7th
"We control our own destiny. We've got a good shot and we feel confident. I just have to have a good night and try not to get killed in a dirt track car over here.” – Allen Johnson on gaining lane choice by qualifying 8th and referring to making a guest racing appearance on Saturday night in a USAC event at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
“We broke a bearing in the rear end on our first qualifying pass, forcing us to abort the run. Without current tuning data to go by, we were forced to make an educated guess for the second run, which explains why we spun the tires so hard. However, armed with the information from that run, we made the appropriate changes to our GM Performance Parts GTO for the first session today and came up with that 6.757, which was among the better runs in the right lane, which is the bad side here in Las Vegas. We came back with another decent run this afternoon, giving us a position to strike from tomorrow. Now it's time to go to work.” – Warren Johnson explaining his process of qualifying in the number-11 slot
“We consider it another successful weekend any time we qualify.” – Kenny Koretsky on his 16th-place start after falling to polesitter Connolly in round one
"We came to help Greg (Anderson, teammate) but didn't do the job we came to do.” – Jason Line on his intended role as a “blocker” after falling to V. Gaines in the opening round of eliminations
"We just got a little too aggressive, and the track couldn't hold it." – A. Johnson on his first-round loss to Coughlin
"We found between rounds that we had a vacuum leak. We searched and searched and we couldn't pinpoint it. Depending upon how many pounds of pressure you lose, that equals horsepower that you lose on the track. It definitely hurt us. It's one of those freak deals. It's something that snuck up on us. It probably got worse and worse each round.” – Richie Stevens Jr. after his loss to Anderson in round two
"That wasn't the note we wanted to go out on.” – Connolly on losing to a holeshot by teammate Coughlin in the second round
“That might be one of those rounds you can point to later as 'The One.'” – Coughlin on the potential championship ramifications of taking out his teammate and moving ahead of him to second place
"The way our year's been, just to go to the semi-finals, we're all happy with how the weekend turned out. I think the driver was wanting a little more than that, but just for me to get back into the racing groove and get my head back on straight, to do that is great. The car seems to be real happy right now. Like I said, the driver just needs to do his job on race day and make the right calls. We'll go to Pomona, get in the middle of it and see if we can't mix it up and ruin somebody's day." – Greg Stanfield after falling to Coughlin in the semis
“We couldn't come in here and win the championship, but we certainly could come in here and lose it, and we didn’t want to do that. We kept ourselves in the game and now we've got to build this confidence into Pomona and race just like we did today.” – Anderson on remaining in contention for the Countdown to One