“Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I don’t listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don’t care.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“You go to Starbucks, and you know what you’re going to get. It’s the same with my yoga.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“You treat an idiot like an idiot.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“You cannot steal somebody’s intellectual property. Law and justice protect.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“If you don’t suffer, you don’t get anything. Nothing easy in life.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver’s license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don’t have a license.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Since my asana techniques increase circulation to all organs in the body and increase lung efficiency, I recommend Bikram Balance natural whole food beverage as a way to provide all the critical nutrients to oxygenate the blood and restore the acid/alkaline balance.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“There’s nothing wrong with material things as long as you don’t lie, cheat and steal.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It’s a balance.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“If you can, you must.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I didn’t come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane… received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, ‘No, you cannot do that.’ You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can’t make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn’t, I’ll cut his head off.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I have so many choices in America; it’s home to so many good things. I’m smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Yoga in America is a joke.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“My system works, as long as people let me do my job my way. It is not just the sequence, it is how you do it: the timing, the mirrors, the temperature, the carpet. But if people only do it 99% right, it is 100% wrong. When someone tries to mess with it, the people won’t get the yoga benefits.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“America’s biggest problem is too much freedom.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Yoga only works one way.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I always forgave my students, like Jesus.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word – ‘Bikram’ – because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Because I’m a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I’m an idiot, I’m weak.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I’m a yogi, not a businessman.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It’s like you’re practicing medicine, but you’re not a doctor.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I started with nothing. Zero.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because ‘Bikram’ has restored it.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I’d fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I always teach celebrities, all my life.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody’s scared of my mouth.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?”
― Bikram Choudhury
“American men are like women.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“It wasn’t easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission – to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“When President Ronald Reagan asked me a stupid question once, I called him an idiot in public! I thought I was going to be arrested, but he laughed and appreciated me.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“I don’t chase money, money chase me!”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Movie stars, rich people – oh, they have so many beautiful cars!”
― Bikram Choudhury
“Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“My friend said to me, ‘You don’t look good,’ – because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.”
― Bikram Choudhury
“In India, nobody sues anybody.”
― Bikram Choudhury
Leave a Reply