Words matter. These are the best Bikram Choudhury Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.
I’m a yogi, not a businessman.
Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?
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.
Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.
Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It’s a balance.
When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.
You go to Starbucks, and you know what you’re going to get. It’s the same with my yoga.
Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.
Yoga in America is a joke.
I always forgave my students, like Jesus.
Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
America’s biggest problem is too much freedom.
In India, nobody sues anybody.
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.
My friend said to me, ‘You don’t look good,’ – because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.
Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.
If you don’t suffer, you don’t get anything. Nothing easy in life.
Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.
You treat an idiot like an idiot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you can, you must.
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.
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.
Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.
