"I knew Greg had won 19 rounds in a row at this race going into the final, but I still felt pretty confident. That team has been the class of Pro Stock for four years so it's remarkable to get in front of them for once. It really hasn't sunk in yet.” — Dave Connolly after going 6.710/206.32 mph to edge Greg Anderson's 6.729/205.79 charge by eight thousandths in the final, and denying Anderson a unique spot in the record books as he was going after an unprecedented fifth-straight Indy race win
“My weekend's already made. The rest is icing on the cake.” — Max Naylor on earning his career-first, number-one start with a 6.655/206.39-mph pass that came in the first qualifying session
“Everything we've done so far is a warm-up. Tomorrow is Indy, it's the big race and the big dog is going to hunt.” — Jim Yates after qualifying 2nd
“I was especially pleased to get down that right lane and it shows that it's imperative to have lane choice here.” — Connolly with a little foreshadowing after placing 3rd in qualifying
“The good news is that we did qualify even though we're not happy with where we qualified. We do have a shot tomorrow but the bad news is that we have the inferior lane which is obvious to everybody. It's a big disadvantage. We're going to have to come up with a miracle, I guess. That's what we're looking for if we're going to win here.” — Anderson’s harsh opinion after qualifying 9th
“I never have had very good luck at Indy and it appears that the trend is continuing.” — Jason Line on his 14th-place starting position
"We're going to be the in right lane tomorrow so we'll need to be as prepared as possible. We've been over there in three of the five qualifying runs, [so] we know what not to do; we'll have to figure out what to do.” — Mike Edwards after qualifying 15th
"The left lane was definitely worth at least two hundredths (of a second), I'd say. And we just didn't have a good shot at it. I've also been sick the last two days, and it's caught up with me, and today I feel the worst I've felt in the two days. And that didn't help either, getting in the car. So, a whole bunch of negatives were pointing towards the first round.” — Richie Stevens Jr. after falling to Justin Humphreys in round one
"We lost lane choice and that got us right in the hind end.” — Allen Johnson on leaving first, but losing traction early and handing the second round to Kurt Johnson
“We got a break against Jim Yates, he broke and I got a .015 light which was good, but he would have run us down. We left the burnout chip on and that would have hurt us. We only ran it up to 8,500 rpm.” — Kenny Koretsky after advancing past Yates to the semi-finals against Connolly
"We certainly had our share of challenges today. We burned a pushrod in the first round and dropped a valve in the second round, but still made it to the semi-finals, so I guess you could say it was my lucky day. We did lose lane choice going into the semis, and that was probably a major factor in determining the outcome. Even though I put a thousandth on him in the last eighth mile, we didn't have the surface to get hooked up to in the first eighth, and that's where the race was won.” — K. Johnson on falling to Anderson in the semis, the only time Anderson had lane choice all day
"You can't cry when you make the finals at the U.S. Nationals. But this is absolutely the hardest runner-up we've ever gotten in our lives.” — Anderson on joining Bob Glidden and former mentor W.J. as four-time consecutive winners after barely missing out on his chance to stand alone and above them in the history books
“We made pretty nice runs all day until the finals where it shook. It was tight, but at the end of the day, the (win) light came on and I went crazy from there.” — Connolly on making his slowest pass of the day in the final round