Jamie McMurray

Jamie: (Talking about proposing to his long time girlfriend Christy Futrell) Yeah, I got on my knee. Christy and I have been together for so long that it's weird when you're talking to your friend. You picture that as a child, I think, doing that, and you don't know what the person looks like, but we're sitting there, and I'm, like, 'Gosh, this is my best friend.' I kind of felt corny. Do I have to get on my knee? Because I'm certainly not Romeo, by any means, you know? Not even close.

Jamie: (Talking about kart racing, one of his favorite hobbies) When you get to the level we're at in professional racing, it becomes work -- sometimes we forget about why we fell in love with it. The bottom line is, we do this because it's fun. A lot of times in our sport, we turn it into work, but doing something like [karting] makes you love it again and remember how passionate we are about it.

Jamie: Carl had a really good run the last lap and could've made it three-wide, and fortunately he was an incredible teammate tonight. He ended up giving that push, and that push is what helped get me to Victory Lane.

Jamie: I worked really hard this year to get my mind and my body (right). When you work out every day and you do all that stuff and you're not winning ... you almost taste it. It's a little bit emotional. You work so hard for something and then you get it. It's hard to explain to somebody the feeling that you have. (About how teammate Carl Edwards aided Jamie in getting his second career victory)

(Following his first victory since 2002) Jamie: I always said for five years, however long, there would never be another victory like Charlotte. And you wait so long to win. Every driver out here can tell you how special it is. I started crying, and I'm like, 'Why are you crying?' Because I was so happy. Celebrating.

(Following his 37th place finish at Infineon Raceway) Jamie: We gambled at the end and lost. If we could go back and do it again, we should have pitted with 10 to go, where I would've had a chance for maybe a top-10 or top-15 finish. Instead we tried to make it the distance and came up short. We had a great run today and I hate to see it end like this. This is disappointing, but we'll have to take this finish and move on to next weekend.

Jamie: It's like night and day from last year, 100 percent better. And if you knew why it was this way, and why everything is working, then you'd never have any problems and everything would always be perfect. (About how the 2007 season is going for him)

Jamie: Last year, I kept saying, 'It can't get any worse.' And I'd show up the next week and would say, 'Wow, I was wrong.' (About how he finished in the 2006 season)

Jamie: I just tried to make a conservative first lap and then go after it. (About qualifying second for the April 1, 2007 race at Martinsville)

Jamie: After our run last weekend at Bristol in the Car of Tomorrow, I'm looking forward to Martinsville this weekend.

Jamie: I'm really proud of this whole team; they have worked really hard over the last couple of months and it's finally paying off. It feels great to be running so well. Hopefully, this weekend in Martinsville we can bring home another strong finish.

Jamie: I knew before the race that we needed to have a strong finish, but more importantly, we just needed to finish the race. That's been our problem the last two races. We got caught up in someone else's mess. I'm really excited for all the guys; they deserved a good finish. This doesn't knock the monkey off our backs completely and we still have a lot work to go in gaining back the points we lost the last couple of races, but it's certainly a start. I have a new outlook going into Atlanta next weekend, as we are taking the exact same car we ran today. (Following the race at the Las Vegas Motorspeedway on March 11, 2007.)

Jamie:That's a really tough way to start the race. This has been a really good track for me, so I really look forward to coming to Fontana. We didn't qualify well, but our car seemed pretty good there the first four or five laps, at least what we got to try. The 10 car just spun out and he tried to save it and then got up into the outside wall, and you're like 10 feet behind him, so you're just hanging on. An unfortunate day. (Following the California 500 on February 25, 2007)

Jamie: That was not the way I wanted to end the Daytona 500. I really thought we had a car capable of finishing in the top five, if not winning the Daytona 500. The guys have worked really hard the last seven days that we have been down here to get all the speed possible out of the car and to have a lot of grip on the track. The No. 26 Crown Royal Ford Fusion was a car to beat today and it is unfortunate we had to end our day like this. (After he crashed out of the 2007 Daytona 500)

(About how he did at Texas Motor Speedway on 11/5/06) Jamie McMurray: Tonight was a weird night for our Crown Royal Ford Fusion. There were times tonight when our car was super fast and had a lot of grip, but other times when it just wouldn't handle the way I wanted it to. It was my fault for hitting the wall out there. I just got a little too loose coming off the corner. Once we lost a lap coming down pit road, there wasn't much we could do to get ourselves back up there.