"It's hard to run numbers good enough to get in these stout fields when you're coasting the last couple of hundred feet. We managed to do it here, but it's not a good thing.”— Del Worsham on blowing up his engine nearly every time down the track after finally qualifying (16th) for a raceday field this year
"We got behind early in the weekend, and we just couldn't get back on course to get a baseline for our runs. We struggled with the track and our setup.”— Mike Ashley after coming up just three-thousandths short of making the field
“I'm disappointed that we're not racing tomorrow. But I'm not embarrassed about how we ran. I think we were the only car that went down the track all four times (in qualifying).”— Tim Wilkerson after suffering his first DNQ this year
"Gainesville always gets a bigger car count and it's always a narrow groove here. I wish it was like Indy and they gave us five qualifying runs, because I'm pretty sure we'd be in on the fifth one.” — Jack Beckman on being among the seven teams that had to pack up on Saturday night 
“Now, if we keep an eye on the "Driving Force" show on A&E, I imagine we'll get to see the K&N car a few times. I bet they run the footage of her winning that lap for all it's worth. That's just not how I wanted to be on TV, and it's not the trivia question I wanted to be the answer to.”— Jeff Arend on being in the opposite lane when Ashley Force got her first Funny Car elimination-round win
“I did my best to stay with it, but unbeknownst to me a hole developed in the oil tank, which caused the car to drift hard."— Cruz Pedregon on tagging the left wall in round one against Jim Head
"We weren't trying to set the world on fire. We were going to try to run a 4.75, (so) we took steps to slow it down again, like we did in Phoenix, and it didn't want any part of it. It just went out there and smoked the tires.”— Scelzi on handing a first-round win to Bernstein in the first-ever career match-up in Funny Car between the only duo in NHRA history to have won championships in both Funny Car and Top Fuel
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"We just threw a little too much for what the track could hold.”— Tony Pedregon after losing traction about half-track against Capps in round two
