I’m excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.

That’s the best we’ve run in a while for a complete race, counting the last half of last year. I feel pretty good about it. We had great pit stops, and the engine ran awesome.

The big difference is we’ve hit on a setup early in the season. The team is preparing great race cars. I’m comfortable in there. I’ve never had cars that I got to the track with...

I’m excited to start first here at Phoenix. It’s a great track and I have a lot of experience here. I’m looking forward to racing at night.

I was so mad after that race. That was one of the biggest disappointments of my career. But I’ve always loved coming to Texas.

Those guys are very talented. You can watch them and see how talented they are. Anybody that talented and likes going fast and doesn’t have a problem racing close and jumping on top of each...

He does a good job of not being a crew chief.

You can do all the tests you want at Kentucky and Nashville but when you get to Vegas then you know where you stand with the other cars. So, I figure I need to be...

We usually run well at Michigan … I used the whole racetrack coming off turn four and that probably hurt us a little bit. I’m looking forward to tomorrow.

This car handled identical to the one we had here last year, so we know we’re not where we want to be with the Charger. We’re making progress. That’s the best we’ve run in a...

I feel like we had a great race car at the test. We have to keep making the right adjustments and I have to give the right information to (team director) Kenny Francis. If we...

We’ve got to capitalize while we do have this and, hopefully, keep it going all season.

It was a good lap, we ran about the same as we did in practice. We practiced a lot of race setups. I think we have a top-five race car.

This is a great victory. It’s one of the tracks I have looked at since I started racing. This is a track you want to win at.

I definitely thought I had my hands full with those guys.

Sometimes I was going overboard. This year our cars have been great.

I am the biggest Seahawks fan there is right now. My throat hurt so bad this morning when I woke up (from cheering). I acted just like a fan at one of our races.

I accept responsibility for my actions and will, in the future, channel the competitive energy and emotion that my team and I share toward productive results on the racetrack for Evernham Motorsports, our sponsors and...

One thing I did was watch Tony Stewart through the week and watch some of the things he does from the time he makes his first lap in practice until he’s done racing that weekend.

It’s still a really, really sensitive race car, especially in traffic. You can make a little change and it will totally hurt you here and help you a little bit there.

I was working real hard not to spin the tires. It was all about throttle control and how much you gave it and where you were in the corners.

I thought my first pole would be somewhere else. There are a lot of good drivers here this weekend — 10 Winston Cup drivers and all the Busch regular drivers. To sit on the pole...

This is a great victory. The guys did an awesome job. They gave me the best car out there. I’ve always loved coming to Texas and racing in front of hundreds of thousands of fans...

The car got loose at the start. It took us a while to get going. It was a heck of a run with Tony there.

Holes open up and guys jump in them. But that’s something we should be doing on lap 150, not lap 10.

As soon as I got through the disappointment (of the 2005 season), all I’ve wanted to do is get back in the car.

Dale Jarrett, when he got back at Newman, that’s just the way you’ve got to do it. If people are going to run you over for no reason and think they’re going to get away...

These are definitely the hardest cars I’ve driven — ever.

I knew we would be fast, but going out that early I didn’t know what would happen. We went to Kentucky (to test) and found a little bit more speed.

As Mark was reeling me in, I was doing all I could to go fast. I was giving about all I had those last 30 laps.

This is behind us now. As a team, our focus is on the upcoming events and the future.

Seventeen of us are going to sit down and talk about different stuff and hopefully get to hang out with the President for five seconds or something.

We came so close to winning at Texas a couple of years ago. I won the Busch race last year, so we have the momentum on our side right now.

If he’s in the this sport, he’s going to be up front. He’s going to be a guy you have to beat. That’s just the way it is.

I just got into the corner and got on the gas to try and have good speed when I got to the start/finish and the car started going up a little bit and spun around....

It’s the way to go fast here. You’ve got to bump, but you’ve got to bump in the right areas and I think some people might have been stepping over that line and bumping where...

Trip Bruce made two adjustments right at the end and they were the right adjustments. He made the car turn the best it had throughout the whole race. If we didn’t make those adjustments late...

I think the track itself and the groove and the passing is really good there.

I’ve learned a ton since 2004.

We had momentum. We’ve had momentum all weekend long.

That was probably the most disappointing second-place finish I’ve ever had. I remember being so mad when it was over.

We tested up there [Pocono] last week and it went pretty good,

I feel like I’m doing the best driving I’ve ever done, and I think the race team is doing their best, setting the cars up and giving me the best cars I can possibly drive...

If people are going to run you over for no reason and think they’re going to get away with it, you just go out there and ruin their day, too. That’s they way I feel.

It was a great run, the team did an awesome job getting me a car that could go that fast. The car was a little better than what it was in practice.

I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that’s kind of what happened to us last year, and I don’t...

Atlanta is one of my favorite race tracks, and it always has been.

We had a good finish Sunday. We’ll take it and go on to Las Vegas. We have more work to do with the Dodge Charger. We’ll work on some more things on the car and...

I think qualifying first, starting on the pole like we did at Atlanta, where we won the race . . . that’s definitely momentum for the weekend.

It took us a little time; we fell back early. We were working on getting the car driving a little better, but the tires fell off real quick. It was very easy to spin your...