«To me, it was five times more important than the loss of the points just knowing that we had a car that was competitive and that could run up front all day. That and this place are going to be a good judge of where your program is at early in the season. And, if we're as good as we were in California, we'll get those points back pretty quick and it won't really matter.»

«We rarely have engine problems at Joe Gibbs Racing. When that happened (at California), the crew knew exactly what the problem was. We had tried two qualifying runs, but were a half-second off. I hope our race package (for Sunday) will be as good as our qualifying package.»

«I guess he forgot what we talked about already.»

«I had to push so hard to get by Kyle. We just got tight behind him and brushed the wall.»

«He's holding us up and we all have another pit stop to make. Work on your car and go on. There's just an etiquette. I'm frustrated with it and I honestly think I have every right to be.»

«We brushed the wall, and that shoved the fender in.»

«We just have a better balance than what we had a year ago, and we're far ahead of where we were at this time last year. It's nice to come out of California and Las Vegas with the runs that we had, even if the results weren't what we would've liked.»

«The good thing is that these guys will leave the track excited about ... how we ran. They won't be excited about where we finished, but we'll look past that and see the big picture.»

«Jeff will remember it, too. It'll come back to him. So you might see six or eight of us lapping the field.»

«I am really disappointed. We had an awesome car all day. I felt like I ran the most patient race I have ever run at Bristol. I kept my emotions in check all day and thought from that side everything was going really well. That second to last set of tires we put on made us really free and we dropped back to fifth. Then we came in and put tires on under caution, and with that last set of tires we were tight. I couldn't turn it through the center (of the corner) at all. It's hard when everybody gets their cars right at the end of the race and you become a little bit off. It was hard to hold those guys back. So we just tried to race smart there and bring our car home in one piece.»