"The satisfaction of this win is greater than any win I've ever had." -- Johnson Jr. after appearing in his first final round since June 2003 and securing his first event title since April 2001 (James Drew photo)

"It's no secret how bad we've struggled for the last couple of years. I ran my career-best time and speed on that run so that's about as picture-perfect as it gets. Plus, Snake [Don Prudhomme, team owner] won this race 40 years ago and today we were able to win it to celebrate that anniversary for him. That's special." -- Johnson Jr. again, on going 4.741 at 327.59 mph in the final round

PRO STOCK

"Jamie [Yates' son and crew chief] and I decided we wanted to get from point A to B, get a time slip and not do anything dumb. We wanted to get down the race track and let the motor show us something, and it did." -- Jim Yates after running a career-best 6.699 at 205.10 to earn an unexpected number-one qualifier (Zak Hawthorne photo)

"We had planned to be little conservative on our set-up this morning, but conservative is not my middle name." -- Kurt Johnson after going a career-best 6.708 to qualify second and setting the track speed record to 206.35 mph in the process

"Although we went into the round firmly believing we had a good tune-up, we ended up being too greedy. I think the cloud cover and the cool temperatures got us thinking the air was better than it was out there." -- Jeg Coughlin on his opening-round loss to Dave Connolly (Zak Hawthorne photo)