"Our main problem right now is that we make killer runs in bad sessions and bad runs in killer sessions.” — Justin Humphreys after missing the raceday cut by one thousandth of a second
"There's not much to say about this one.” — Anderson after suffering a rare first-round loss, his first of the season, this time at the hands of Tom Hammonds
"We made the second-best run of the session. Unfortunately, we ran up against the guy who had the best run.” — Connolly after coming up just .006 short of A. Johnson in the opening round
“We lost lane choice by a few thousandths, which put us in the right hand lane that had been slightly slower all weekend. We also had a few issues with the car, which certainly didn't help. The bottom line, however, is that we were beat by a car that happened to be better on that particular run.” — K. Johnson on falling to Coughlin in the second round
“As we move toward evening the sun makes it difficult to see the tree in the left lane, but Mother Nature gave us a nice cloud cover and enabled us to hit the tree as hard as we did in the final." — Coughlin on the .002 light that led to his first Pro Stock victory since the 2005 season ender at Pomona
“The competition is real tight in this class so you can never let your guard down.” — Angelle Sampey after securing the number-four starting position
“This was a huge win to let us know that all the hard work we've done has paid off.” — Andrew Hines after overcoming a holeshot by Matt Smith to earn his 9th career race win
"I'm working on calming myself down and trying not to override the bike. I want to let the bike make its way down the track and make the run as smooth as possible." — Hines after qualifying number one at 6.921-second pass at 193.65 mph and resetting the track records
“I just have to get into a better rhythm and do my job at being more consistent on the starting line." — Eddie Krawiec on going red against Sampey in round one
"As it turns out, I threw away a sure win.” — Antron Brown on the redlight start that negated his quicker and faster pass and handed his first round to opponent Geno Scali
"Obviously, this loss is on me. I guess I was afraid of red lighting and held back way too much.” — Sampey on the .061 holeshot by Hines that gave him the win over her in the semis
“I can’t complain too much. I mean, of course I want the 10 pounds back especially with the factory teams dominating once again. But that will just force us to find more power.”
— Smith on the 10-pound penalty his Buell now has to carry, beginning at the Chicago event
"The bike ran so well this weekend and to be able to do that in front of all the Harley-Davidson employees who came out to the race and H-D President Jim McCaslin just makes the win even better." — Hines with the obligatory sponsor mention after scoring his first race win in 2007
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