Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Bikram Choudhury
Explore popular quotes and sayings by Bikram Choudhury.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word - 'Bikram' - because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.
If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
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.
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.
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.
Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.
I always teach celebrities, all my life.
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.
I'm a yogi, not a businessman.
I started with nothing. Zero.
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.
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.
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.
Yoga in America is a joke.
Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.
Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.
Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.
Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.
America's biggest problem is too much freedom.
You treat an idiot like an idiot.
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.
I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.
I don't chase money, money chase me!
Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.
I always forgave my students, like Jesus.
There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.
American men are like women.
In India, nobody sues anybody.
So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.
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.
You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.
Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.
Yoga only works one way.
Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!
Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.
I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.
If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.
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.
When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.
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.
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.
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.
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.
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.
Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.
I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.
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.
My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.
Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?
Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.
If you can, you must.
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.
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.
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.
I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.
Related Authors
Arundhati Roy Quotes
Indian
Writer
Jaggi Vasudev Quotes
Indian
Author
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
Indian
Philosopher
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Indian
Leader
Mata Amritanandamayi Quotes
Indian
Leader
Narendra Modi Quotes
Indian
Politician
Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
Indian
Leader
Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Indian
Poet
Rajneesh Quotes
Indian
Priest
Ramana Maharshi Quotes
Indian
Philosopher
Salman Rushdie Quotes
Indian
Novelist
Sathya Sai Baba Quotes
Indian
Saint
Sri Chinmoy Quotes
Indian
Philosopher
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes
Indian
Philosopher
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
Indian
Leader
Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Indian
Priest