Bikram Choudhury Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Yoga in America is a joke.

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

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

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

In India, nobody sues anybody.

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.

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.

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.

If you can, you must.

American men are like women.

You treat an idiot like an idiot.

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

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

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

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 always forgave my students, like Jesus.

I started with nothing. Zero.

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

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

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

I always teach celebrities, all my life.

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.