"This racetrack is magic for me. It plays right into our game plan, it's a nice race surface and 60-degree weather is something our cars like. You can throw everything you have at this track, you run as fast as you can and that's where horsepower shows up. On a hot, greasy track, you can't use all of that power and it evens out the field. You come to Pomona, race in conditions like this, use all you have, show what you've built over the winter, and the car with the most power wins.”— Greg Anderson after beating Greg Stanfield in the final to earn his third Winternationals title and the 44th event win of his career
“With the way the class is going with the high-revving RPM engines, we think we can run these engines a little higher, and that's why we elected to do it. You'll see more of the GM teams headed in that direction in the near future because the engine is that good."
— Anderson, before qualifying number one at 6.634 and a track-record 209.04 mph, on why he and teammate Jason Line have made the switch to running GM’s DRCE3 (third-generation) engine this year. Anderson has been the number-one qualifier at a remarkable 53 percent (49 out of 93) of the Pro Stock races he's entered
"Lane choice, that's what it's all about. You're going to have to keep lane choice in order to keep moving ahead. That will make the difference come the end of the year.”— Kurt Johnson after securing lane choice for the opening round of eliminations with a 7th-place qualifying effort 
"No matter how you look at it, it's been a terrific weekend. From here on out it can only get better."— Rodger Brogdon on making his Pro Stock debut memorable with a 12th-place qualifying effort
"There was only thirteen thousandths of a second between our best and worst passes, which I believe was the least amount of deviation among all the Pro Stock teams out there, so at least we're on the road to consistency, which is a key in this category.”— Warren Johnson after qualifying 14th
"The trouble is you have to get to the finish line first.”— Jim Yates on his .019 holeshot in round one, but still falling short of Jeg Coughlin Jr. at the stripe
"I didn't want him to beat me on a holeshot.”— Kenny Koretsky explaining why he left .011 too soon against Brogdon in the opening round
"I felt like I could go a 'teen' on the tree, maybe hang him out a little bit to try and throw him off his game, but that certainly didn't work at all. He was .004 and I missed it. My left foot didn't cooperate today and I definitely left some on the table.”— Dave Connolly on his semi-final loss to Anderson
“Just call me the bridesmaid.”— Stanfield on coming up short for the fourth time in four career Pro Stock final rounds
"That GTO was run in Comp Eliminator all last year. We switched over to Rick Jones Racecars at the end of last year, Jason and I, and I won the last race of the year with an RJ car. We needed a spare car, but Rick was backed up for six months, so we looked around and found a used one and bought it from Richard Freeman. We made a lot of changes to it, and it ended up running better than my primary car. The used one looked so good in testing that we decided to take a chance with it. It was risky but it paid off."— Anderson demoralizing the rest of the field already with a revealing look at his ride
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