“The thing went out there and spun the tires before the end of the (concrete) pad pretty hard. It recovered for a brief moment and spun again. We finally got it to recover, but Dixon had his nose out in front and stayed there.”— Whit Bazemore on his first-round pairing against eventual race winner Dixon
"I made a mistake and I'm not telling what I did.” — Clay Millican on his traction-challenged loss to Doug Kalitta in the opening round
"I will work on sharpening my reaction time just a bit more.”— Brandon Bernstein after getting burned by a J.R. Todd holeshot in round one
“We wanted the win, but making it to the final round feels great.”— Doug Herbert after losing his second final this year by just half-a-car length to Dixon
"Herbert blew by me right at the finish line and I was watching him and didn't see the win light. Then I realized he wasn't going to slow down in time to make the turn-off and sure enough, he nosed into the sand trap so I knew the TV cameras were going to be on him regardless of who won. I didn't know until I got all the way around the corner and Tommy's guys told me."— Dixon on how he learned of earning his fourth win at Englishtown after going to the final there in each of the last seven years
"We had an ignition malfunction in the second round. That's the first time we've had something like that happen all season long. The car just won't run on one magneto. We were lucky to run that quick.”— Rod Fuller on the 4.74 that lost to Hillary Will’s 4.67 in round one
"We've taken our lumps this season, so this win is even sweeter for all of us.”— Tommy Johnson Jr. after defeating Tony Pedregon in the final, on his comparative lack of success in all of the previous races this year
"There was probably no chance anybody was going to move up to battle for the top four positions, because of the heat. But one thing we wanted to do was to find out whether at this time of day tomorrow, if we got after the car and the clutch a little bit more than usual, it would hold. It's still a newer car for us, so that's the mindset we were in.”— Ron Capps after qualifying 5th, on the tire-smoking 9.75 he ran in the final session on Saturday