It's a really tough environment. There's Japanese and Korean competition, and the Chinese are on their way.

American vehicle makers are in the middle of a very hard market environment — overseas companies are attacking them with strong products and good prices, and more of them are coming onto the market each day.

I think we've created a much more competitive environment. There is competition in all of the facets of the field.

I feel going into that program, that environment, the coaches will prepare me very well, facing that competition, I'll improve, I'll do well.

While the competitive environment remains pretty tough, more rational competition (among the wireless firms) already appears to have had a positive effect.

They had this arrogant belief that when baby boomers turn 50, 'they belong to us,' and that just didn't happen.