"When we had time and got the ball down and passed it I thought we looked good."
"You've got to fight for that right to be able to play though and we did that better. We're a decent side, we need a little bit of experience but we'll be ok."
"They've done well, they work hard, they're a good unit, they know what they are doing and they have got quite a lot of experience through the side, a lot more experience than we have got.
"Infact their assistant manager, Dennis Booth, said to me after the game, that he thought our kids did really well, and he said "kids", so it's obvious that they think we have got a young side. We have got a young side and I need a little bit of experience just to help the kids along."
"Jason White is a good goalkeeper, he's 6'3, he kicks it well, he's got good hands and he's got all the makings of being a good keeper, what he needs now is to be playing games. Nathan Arnold is doing well, he'll probably start at Bury on Saturday and caused problems here today against a back four that are top of the League so that augurs well for the future."
"This is a performance we can build on for the future. Alright the players are disappointed with conceding a late goal but we could have wrapped it up before that, 2-0 up and the game could have been all over. Carlisle, credit to them, they stuck at it and they got the break at the end."
Meanwhile Carlisle boss Paul Simpson told the official Carlisle Website (via BBC radio Cumbria) "It's incredible, it's a wonderful day. It was a horrible, horrible game of football as far as we are concerned. We came here to get a result to get us promoted though and we've got the point. I don't care how we've got it because I haven't got a clue how that ball went in at the end. I think everybody just wished it in, all those brilliant fans behind the goal wished it in.
"We've got our reward, we really can enjoy it, only for a couple of days though, because we now need to get ourselves started again because we want to finish top. Torquay next week is the only thing that is on our minds now. We're going to enjoy the moment now, we have to enjoy the moment now, but we've got to make sure that we are ready to go again.
"I don't want to go home, I want to stay out here with the fans. I've got to go and find my two sons who are in amongst that lot somewhere, so I've no idea where they are but I'm going to go and try to find them. It's a fantastic day for us, it's a reward for two and a half years of hard work from everybody concerned with the club, and this is what we all want.
"It's what we all wanted, it's what my family wanted and it's what all of these supporters wanted. This tops everything that we've done so far, I think this is a huge achievement for us, it really is. Nobody would have even been stupid enough to have said this two years ago but we've all worked hard and we're absolutely delighted, you can see what it means to everybody.
"We had to throw everybody forward, we wanted a result today. We weren't desperate, it wasn't the last game of the season but tomorrow never comes, you've got to go and try and grab it today. We had to do on it Monday against Notts County, they've shown character, we haven't shown today what a good football team we are but over the other 42 games I think we have. We've got to just keep going and keep plugging away for these last few now.
"We've got about 12 or 13 weeks before we start worrying about what comes after this. We'll have to come back down for next Saturday though, we want to, we want to be right for next Saturday. We can enjoy this, we can be professional about it but we'll make the most of this opportunity."