It’s something I’m going to think about for a long, long time. I lost the championship by 35 points and we lost over 50 (points) with the loose wheel.

[Driver Greg Biffle said a member of his crew took a photo of the Hendrick cars failing the height inspection at Dover.] The way I look at it is when you present the car for...

I really like racing at California,

We share information really well together — all the teams do — and we give each other racing room, … It’s fun to race with Matt and these other guys. Man, it’s just unbelievable that...

It kind of gets in your head about how you’re going to end up after this race, … I don’t think we’re as good as we were here last time. … We’ll do our best,...

At the end, I’d get behind Kurt, I’d get close to him. I tried everything. I pulled out the whole handbook and I couldn’t really do a lot with him.

It was hard to tell a lot of difference between the two cars. The balance seems really good on it, and I’m real happy with it so far.

Congratulations to Kyle. Those guys have been wanting a win for a while.

Let them have the attention, … I believe we’ve got a great chance to win this thing. It could get real interesting.

We were pretty confident coming I here and we’re still confident that we’ll be able to make our way towards the front, … It just depends on what the 20 does. If he passes all...

We’ve got our best race cars and I’m prepared, … We’re going to do the best we can.

It’s going to be easy to make up the first six spots. The next six are going to be tougher.

Have you ever seen that show, ‘My Name is Earl?’ —- karma. It’s really not playing fair.

I can’t say what happened because we didn’t have a failure all year.

I like a little bit looser car. So we’re able to make changes for a driver’s style and I think we’re going to lose a lot of that, maybe, in the future.

It was pretty incredible to race a guy like that for the win, it was pretty neat,

That’s all the practice we get for the entire weekend! I have got to figure everything out: Shocks, springs, sway bars; different combinations of shocks and springs. What if I want to do some tire-pressure...

It would have been a different race if we could have pitted for tires with 16 laps to go, but that just didn’t happen,

Just had to dig, fight real hard to get back, to get past all those cars. Once I got there, my tires were used up,

It did its job. They sure stop your head from moving too far forward.

He just ran into the back of me and turned me into the fence. It’s a little bit of a give-and-take game out there. If you get a run on somebody down the straightaway, you...

I really enjoy running the Busch car. I have a lot of fun with it, and the more seat time I can get, the better. I hate it when there is a race going on...

I’d start getting close to him, to within about two car-lengths, and it would just start chattering the tires. If I could have got in front of Kurt I feel like I could have driven...

It’s a hard thing not to be overconfident.

They’re going to be very hard to beat,

It wasn’t the car I was thinking I was going to have. But the guys did a great job in the pits, and I kept it off the wall and didn’t get any flat tires....

Then you have to answer to your car owner, you have to answer to the sponsor, you have to answer to all these folks why you’re not racing. But that’s the only way it will...

If I was a little freer I might have got him.

It’s frustrating. We didn’t have an engine failure all season last year.

I know the 24 came down and kind of gave me a door slam down the backstretch.

It was unfortunate. (The car) got from under us in the second lap. It would have been a good solid lap for the race, but now we’re going to suffer really bad. It’s going to...

We wanted to be up in the top 10…we maybe came up a tenth (of a second) short of what we could have been, but I’m still happy.

We’d love to sweep California. I’d love to get back in Victory Lane; I don’t care where it’s at. We’re not taking the same car we won with back to California. We’re taking a better...

Just didn’t have anything left on them. I thought I was going to hit the fence, wasn’t sure which way I was going to hit the fence, but was able to get it back together...

You really have to pay attention,

We can’t dwell on the past. We just have to bounce back at Phoenix. Our goal now is just try to make the top 10 (by the second Richmond race).

All of the teams are running good. But the 20 car is still better than all of us.

When your name gets put in a sentence with Jeff Gordon, that’s a bid deal. I have a lot of respect for Jeff Gordon.

The Fusion, I think, is going to be a lot better car for us. (But) we’re still just in the preliminary aspects of figuring it out and we had pretty much optimized the Taurus.

Just 10 points a race isn’t going to do it, and what are the chances of me finishing second for the next six races? We can only do as good as we can do and...

We just have to make up points on the 20, … We made up a little bit on the 48 today and a little bit on the 12, but we’ve got to finish more than...

It was a great run. The guys did a great job in the pits. The guys did a fantastic job.good run for us I am really excited about it. I learned a lot today.a good...

Roush is putting everything into a third championship and the National Guard team is more focused that I’ve ever seen them. It’s an exciting position to be in right now.

The 9 car is the fastest car here. If something doesn’t happen to his car or he blows the right-front tire and hits the fence, then he might be the car to beat.

I don’t really want to win races like that. That doesn’t take a whole bunch of talent to knock a guy out of the way. Racing tight is one thing, but to get a run...

They’re in a points mode.

Our guys are working like we’re behind the competition right now. That’s how hard they’re working to try and make our cars better and better and better.

Everybody this year is like, ‘Man, what’s changed between last year and this year?’ … Nothing.

I don’t see a lot of people getting involved in stuff. Everybody’s got the focus of getting a good finish and all that.

To get it to stop,