Sports
- Daigo Kobayashi (born 1983), association footballer for the Greek club Iraklis F.C.
- Izumi Kobayashi (born 1977), professional go player
- Kamui Kobayashi (born 1986), Formula One racing driver for Sauber
- Kenta Kobayashi (born 1981) professional wrestler currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah
- Koichi Kobayashi (born 1952), go player
- Masahide Kobayashi (born 1974), baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants
- Masato (kickboxer), or Masato Kobayashi (born 1979), professional Japanese Welterweight kickboxer
- Nobuaki Kobayashi (born 1942), three-cushion billiards player
- Ryokan Kobayashi (born 1979), baseball pitcher, currently plays for the Brother Elephants, Chinese Professional Baseball League
- Satoru Kobayashi (born 1959), go player
- Yasuo Kobayashi (born 1936), aikido teacher
- Abdullah Kobayashi or Yosuke Kobayashi (born 1976), professional wrestler with BJPW and TNA
- Takeru Kobayashi (born 1978), competitive eater
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)