11.   Since she began practicing her spiral in the living room to please her mother, Nicole Bobek has worked with enough coaches to staff a large skating academy.

12.   To please his mother, he earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Vienna, but he had set his sights on becoming a writer.

13.   He spent one year in college to please his mother, then quit and moved to Nashville.

14.   Means is certainly headed for stardom, which should please his mother, Gwendolyn Stevenson, who banned her son from football when he was in junior high school.