My Journey to the Top

 

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Lorena Ochoa
Golfer

This has been a great season for me. I'm enjoying myself so much. I'm working hard and seeing good results. There is pressure, but it's a positive pressure. I like to feel that. It's all about breaking records and making history. I'm happy to be in this position. I like competition and I like to win. When you lose, you get that feeling that hurts so much. Then you do whatever it takes to win next time. It's a passion.

Everything has been a process. You get better with time. My parents believed in what we wanted to do and didn't put any pressure on us. I started playing in tournaments when I was 7. When I was 8, I started playing international tournaments.

It always helps to have a technique. In golf, it's all about visualizing. The more you practice, the more comfortable you feel. But you always learn. It's never good to feel too comfortable.

I love being on the golf course, but now I travel so much and go to so many tournaments that I really look forward to going home and recharging. I am who I am because of my family and my friends, and it is very important to be home with them. And then I go back to tour.

What I most enjoy is representing my country. I'm very proud to be Mexican. I think I have the potential to be a role model for others, especially in Mexico. It's a great opportunity and I like the responsibility. I'm trying to do things in the right way, and hopefully others can follow and dream and become professionals in the future. Every time I go home, I try to spend time with kids, to motivate them.

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  • Posted By: pinkiroy @ 10/19/2007 4:43:48 PM

    Thanks a lot for the well elucidated artices,illustrating how women have come to the top. I am sure this will definately be an encouraging article which will go a long way in making we "women" realizt that we are indeed "Shakti"...meaning power...asis depicted by the great epics of Indian sprituality.

  • Posted By: leyla @ 10/18/2007 7:38:08 AM

    Women from all over the world face same challenges. As long as we will not have a self -esteem problem
    we can accomplish at least twice as men do. Be it politics, business or social domaines...Thank you
    Newsweek for introducing new role models. Leyla Alaton G??nyeli from ??stanbul-Turkey.

  • Posted By: jayant @ 10/17/2007 1:41:59 AM

    My million thanks to Newsweek magazine and the journalists who covered this story for putting Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Ms Mayawati among the top 8 women leaders in world. These laurels from a reputed magazine like Newsweek are rightly deserved by Mayawati. Such a highly valued recognition would have never come from the Indian media which is totally controlled by the forces of bramhnical social order. The Indian media is so utterly biased and partisan that it makes even an ordinary person from amongst the so called "upper caste" look like a big hero by repeatedly portraying him in media. On the other hand the big heroes from the Bahujan Samaj ( majority lower castes and converted minorities) who have made huge contributions in nation building are totally ignored by this same partisan Indiam media. Hats off to Newsweek !

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