With the aim of studying how to promote disabled sports, we conducted a questionnaire survey of 100 male and 33 female able-bodied students as baseline research to investigate their motives for volunteering to help with sports for the disabled. We found that 1. ninety-five percent of students had not volunteered to help with sports for the disabled; 2. the percentage of students who were not interested in this kind of volunteering was significantly lower than that of students who were interested (P < 0.01); 3. the most common reason for students not volunteering was that they had no opportunity; 4. their motives for participation could be classified into six categories; and 5. their primary motive was a desire to contribute to society. These results indicate that, as a way of further promoting disabled sports, it is important to increase the number of volunteer activities available and provide students with opportunities to experience volunteering.