Bikram Choudhury Quotes

No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.

Give me 30 days, I'll change your body. Give me 60 days , I'll change your life

Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.

Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.

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.

Falling out of a posture means you are human; getting back into the posture means you are a yogi.

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.

You're never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.

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

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

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

You have nothing to lose. You had nothing to begin with.

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

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

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.

All you need are the words I give you here and your own honest efforts.

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

The right way is the hard way.

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

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

If you can, you must.

I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.

Yoga only works one way.

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 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.

Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.

Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.

Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.

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

I'm a yogi, not a businessman.

Bikram Yoga will give you 'The Key to the Kingdom of Health'

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

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

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

You treat an idiot like an idiot.

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

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.

My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

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.

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

You are never too old or too broken. It is never too late to begin, or to start all over again.

I always forgave my students, like Jesus.

Cheer up, things will get worse.

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

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

My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.

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

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

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

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

American men are like women.

Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

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

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

I started with nothing. Zero.

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?

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

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

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

I don't chase money, money chase me!

If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

Let no one steal your peace.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

America's biggest problem is too much freedom.