"You hate losing like that, but they didn't do it on purpose. The wait hurt them, too. Our team and their team are pretty close and we'd never do anything to hold them up and they wouldn't mess with us. It' s just one of those things." -- Todd on losing to David Grubnic in round two after Grubnic' s crew had him wait while they repositioned their dragster during staging before both cars lost traction almost immediately off the hit
"Being pushed over into the right lane made it a bit tougher. We had to take it a little easier since a lot of cars were smoking the tires over there.” -- Schumacher on losing lane choice after falling to Fuller in the semis
"When you run against the top cars you have to have no fear. (Crew chief) Lee Beard tuned to what he thought the track would hold but the tune-up was too hot. Brandon got down that right lane and posted a 4.61, which we could have beaten, but like I said, it wasn't our day today." -- Fuller after losing traction early in the final round against Bernstein
"We had a brand-new chassis for this event and that's probably why we had to dial it in during qualifying. We were probably a little too aggressive at first, but the raceday performance looked excellent." -- Bernstein on qualifying 7th, then going on to win his fourth event in 2006 and the 12th of his Top Fuel career
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"When you have a crew chief like Jimmy Prock beating on your hood and he tells you it's time to stage, it gives you a lot of confidence as a driver knowing there is a team like that and crew chief like that, that's given you the best race car on the property. You know you have a good shot at winning. It is up to you to go up there and do your job." -- Robert Hight after beating first-time finalist Mike Ashley for the event win in Dallas
“If we had been in the show before the last qualifying run we were going to stand on it and try to run a mid-.70 like we tried last night. And I think the track would have held it today, but we couldn't take the chance. We couldn't take the chance of shaking the tire, or smoking the tire, so we just went at it and ran the simple. 85.” -- Gary Scelzi on breaking back into the field in the final qualifying round with a 4.85/321.04 that placed him 10th on the list
"As a fan of the sport, I'd want to get my ticket for the front row and if I'm at home I definitely want to get in early. It's just everything you want as a fan. As a driver we're both going to be
going nuts tonight, but this is what it's all about. This is going to be a lot of fun." -- Ron Capps, the current points leader, after qualifying 11th to set up a first-round match against John Force, his closest trailer in the championship chase, to determine who left Dallas with the points lead
“It was darting around on me quite a bit, and I had to make some hard corrections way down track. I was thinking 'Oh come on car, don't do this to me.' We got it there, though, and we're in. It's nice to be in. Okay, that's the understatement of the weekend, but it's true."
-- Del Worsham on squeaking into the 16th-place starting slot after missing the cut at the previous two races
"From the time they ran the seventh pair of dragsters to when we ran (in the second pair of Funny Cars), the track warmed up ten degrees. It's nobody's fault but our own. All we can do is try to learn from what happened and get better.” -- Eric Medlen after losing traction in round one against Tony Bartone
