"I knew I went red and clicked it a little early.” — T.J. Zizzo after leaving .051 too soon against Bob Vandergriff Jr. in the first round
"The motor didn't sound good and I shut it off early.” — Cory McClenathan on his second-round loss to Schumacher
“It’s kind of a bummer going to a place of this magnitude and it turned into a one lane race track. It just wasn’t going to make it down the track in that right lane.” — Fuller after losing traction in the right lane against Dixon in the semi-finals
“We didn’t go up there trying to run an unreasonable number against Schumacher. There was not any way we could have run that quickly in the right lane and we still gave them a pretty good race. It did spin the tires hard further down the track, but we would have been there if something had happened to their car.” — Melanie Troxel on her semi-final effort against Schumacher
"This one is for the dreamers—because it's been a dream of mine to win at Indy since we debuted two years ago.” — Mike Ashley after making a clean 4.894-second pass at 323.74 mph in the final to beat Robert Hight's coasting 8.072/104.08 effort
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“This is really pretty cool, I will gladly admit that. As soon as we got to the Media Room, I did grab a copy of the qualifying sheet, just to have as a keepsake, for whatever sort of scrapbook-type collection I end up with when I'm done racing. No matter what happens, or where we end up, I have a piece of paper that shows me in the top spot at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, and not too many people get to see something like that.” — Jeff Arend after going 4.754/327.51 to sit number one after Friday night’s lone qualifying session, a pass that held up for the top spot on raceday
“We have a tough customer in Del Worsham, but we went down the track every run. Todd doesn't seem to be nervous and he wasn't nervous in Brainerd either when we took out the number-one qualifier, so we're going to go up there guns-ablazing and try to knock these big dogs off.” — Gary Scelzi on his first-round pairing against Worsham after qualifying 10th
"I would have liked to go a little bit faster but we tried some different (clutch) levers on our second run, hoping to get some handle on the hotter track. And the track was better than we gave it credit for.” — Tim Wilkerson on his Sunday qualifying attempts, after slotting in at 15th on the list
“We tried some different things with the chassis to get some consistency with the Impala, but we had trouble all weekend.” — Tommy Johnson Jr. after posting a semi-final finish in the Skoal Showdown, but failing to crack the 16-car field for raceday
"If someone from our team had to miss this U.S. Nationals I am glad it was me. I've got two young drivers, my daughter Ashley and son-in-law Robert (Hight) and they are the future. Both those kids have really good hot rods and really good teams. I've won the championships and the U.S. Nationals before; now it’s their turn.” — John Force on not racing at Indy for only the second time in his career (previously 1984), after running a best of 4.856 at 318.99 mph in the final qualifying session to place 17th on the list