Bikram Choudhury Quotes

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

- Bikram Choudhury

Strength, English, Bulldog

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

Some, Everybody, About, Hobby

I'm a yogi, not a businessman.

- Bikram Choudhury

Businessman, Yogi

I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.

- Bikram Choudhury

Fix, Adjust, Batteries, Engines

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.

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Brain, Surgeon, License, Brain Surgery

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

Benefits, Tries, Works, Sequence

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

Critical, Recommend, Whole, Lung

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

Money, Need, Like, Spiritualism

I always forgave my students, like Jesus.

- Bikram Choudhury

Always, Jesus, Like, Forgave

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

Want, Wheelchair, Hundred, Hundred Years

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

- Bikram Choudhury

Sports, Performance, Natural, Factor

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

- Bikram Choudhury

Success, Balance, Keys, Maintaining

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

Mind, Bad, Yoga, Meaning Of

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

Student, Other, Mixing, Sushi

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

Country, Here, Plane, Visa

Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.

- Bikram Choudhury

World, Foreigners, Prefer, Indian

Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.

- Bikram Choudhury

Competition, Old, Yoga, Indian

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

Yogurt, Japan, Bill Clinton, 1970s

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

- Bikram Choudhury

Been, Read, Researchers, Table

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

Need, Everyone, Months, Institute

I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

- Bikram Choudhury

Mouth, Everybody, Longest, Scared

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

- Bikram Choudhury

Rome, Copyright, Romans, Trademark

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

- Bikram Choudhury

Business, Money, Before, No Business

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

Over, Bought, Drove, Restored

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

Enjoy, Enough, Many, Good Things

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

- Bikram Choudhury

School, Know, Yoga, Do You Know

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

- Bikram Choudhury

Law, Property, Steal, Protect

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

Work, Months, Though, Slept

I always teach celebrities, all my life.

- Bikram Choudhury

My Life, Teach, Always, All My Life

So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.

- Bikram Choudhury

Like, Practicing, Yoga, So Many People

Yoga in America is a joke.

- Bikram Choudhury

America, Yoga, Joke

Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!

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Beautiful, Rich, Movie, Rich People

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

Mind, Door, Knock, Medium

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

Lose, Swallow, Your, Popularity

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

Say, Pond, Cut, They Say

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

- Bikram Choudhury

Cheat, Steal, Material, Wrong

Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word - 'Bikram' - because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.

- Bikram Choudhury

Mantra, Works, Gaga, None

I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

- Bikram Choudhury

Sports, Compete, Over, Automobiles

Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.

- Bikram Choudhury

Idiot, Kind, Everybody, Thinks

America's biggest problem is too much freedom.

- Bikram Choudhury

Freedom, Problem, Biggest, Biggest Problem

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

- Bikram Choudhury

Love, I Am, Like, Wonders

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

Stupid, Arrested, Reagan, Asked

When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.

- Bikram Choudhury

Actress, 30 Minutes, Shirley, Asked

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

Law, Think, About, My Friend

If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.

- Bikram Choudhury

Exercise, Yoga, Your, Your Body

In India, nobody sues anybody.

- Bikram Choudhury

Nobody, Anybody, India

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

Will, Need, Shut, Listen

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

- Bikram Choudhury

Nine, Times, Negative

Yoga only works one way.

- Bikram Choudhury

Only, Yoga, Works, One Way

You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.

- Bikram Choudhury

Same, Going, Get, Starbucks

You treat an idiot like an idiot.

- Bikram Choudhury

Treat, You, Like, Idiot

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

- Bikram Choudhury

Growing Up, Growing, Saw, Bombay

I don't chase money, money chase me!

- Bikram Choudhury

Money, Me, Chase

I started with nothing. Zero.

- Bikram Choudhury

Nothing, Zero, Started

Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.

- Bikram Choudhury

World, Kind, Come, Problem

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

- Bikram Choudhury

Nothing, Easy, Get, Suffer

Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.

- Bikram Choudhury

Worry, Like, Makes, Sick

American men are like women.

- Bikram Choudhury

Men, American, Like, American Men

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