Kobayashi X Quotes & Sayings

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full. — Takeru Kobayashi

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity. — Kobayashi Issa

In her socks, Egg glides down the hallway, as if on ice. She's like the Flash, so fast you can see only a blur The Flash is almost invisible, but it's the almost that troubles her, the red streak of almost that catches the eye. Superheroes save the day. She knows they are fiction, but a part of her wants so much for them to be real, like Newton's equal and opposite forces. — Tamai Kobayashi

This dewdrop world
Is but a dewdrop world
And yet - — Kobayashi Issa

People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared. — Takeru Kobayashi

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become. — Takeru Kobayashi

The first is about problem solving generally. Kobayashi redefined the problem he was trying to solve. What question were his competitors asking? It was essentially: How do I eat more hot dogs? Kobayashi asked a different question: How do I make hot dogs easier to eat? This question led him to experiment and gather the feedback that changed the game. Only by redefining the problem was he able to discover a new set of solutions. — Anonymous

About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water. — Takeru Kobayashi

I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do. — Takeru Kobayashi

There is no stranger under the cherry tree. — Kobayashi Issa

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada. — Takeru Kobayashi

Don't kill! ...
The fly is asking you
To save his life
By rubbing his hands together — Kobayashi Issa

One cannot be betrayed if one has no people. — Takeru Kobayashi

[H]uman beings ... make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts ... the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves. — Takeru Kobayashi

Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings ... Amble out for love — Kobayashi Issa

History matters. — Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion. — Takeru Kobayashi

I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours. — Takeru Kobayashi

This world of dew
Is only a world of dew -
and yet, and yet.

The pain is real
Midst love, tears and ashes -
Love Himself suffered. — Kobayashi

Hi! My little hut
Is newly-thatched I see ...
Blue morning-glories — Kobayashi Issa

Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it? — Kobayashi Issa

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't. — Kobayashi Issa

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. — Takeru Kobayashi

A world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom
Even then — Kobayashi Issa

Being forced to sit between my mortal enemy and my ex-girlfriend every afternoon made seventh-period math feel like my own private Kobayashi Maru, a brutal no-win scenario designed to test my emotional fortitude. — Ernest Cline

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience. — Kobayashi Issa

Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning — Kobayashi Issa

At least we have the record, Henry thought. A reminder of a place where people didn't seem to care what you looked like, where you were born, or where your family was from. When the music played, it didn't seem to make one lick of difference if your last was Abernathy or Anjoy, Kung or Kobayashi. — Jamie Ford

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly! — Kobayashi Issa