“We didn't expect him to do that, but, hey, if it's your day, it's your day. It's a little hard to swallow. You feel like you've done everything you could do, but it still wasn't enough.”— Richie Stevens Jr. on the .003 light Anderson strapped on him in round two that led to a holeshot victory over Stevens’ .014 reaction time
"I was so scared running out of that lane that I was going to lose that I didn't dare look over. I was very happy when I saw that win light.”— Anderson after getting to the finish line just a razor-thin .004 of a second ahead of Dave Connolly in the semis and regaining lane choice for the final
"Unfortunately we ran the wrong guy at the wrong time. I have to hand it to Greg, he's doing a great job behind the wheel this year.”— Connolly after Anderson passed him in the last 300 feet of racetrack
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"I've been pushing the tree. I think my worst light in the last three races has been like a .020. I mean, you're pushing it and you're pushing it. And it's going to happen when you do that. It's going to go red now and then or you ain't doing your job."— Allen Johnson after going red against Coughlin in the semis
"That's the way things are out here where we are measuring in thousandths of a second and when everything isn't at 100 percent, you are at risk. That was all it took to take us out of the ball game. We really thought we'd make a strong run."— Coughlin on a mid-track “glitch” that led to losing by just .022 in the final round to Anderson
“We thought we could run maybe a mid 6.73, which is what we thought we could do in that right lane. We'll never know. We slowed from a .999 to a high 1.01 60-foot. Looking at the racetrack data, it shows the surge plain as day—the g-meter, my head going forward—the whole bit. Just for a brief split second, but it doesn't take much."— Coughlin again, better explaining what happened to him in the final against Anderson
“We lost lane choice first round, and I can't remember the last time we lost lane choice and won a round. That put us in uncharted territory. We had to really battle back from the right lane, and it's not that bad, just a half a hundredth at the starting line, (but) you knew you wanted to be in that left lane.”— Anderson after winning his third event this year, his 46th career victory, his fifth career victory at The Strip and his first in Vegas since the fall 2004 event
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