Bikram Choudhury
Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.Collection: Positive
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!Collection: Computers
If you can, you must.
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.
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.
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.
I don't chase money, money chase me!
You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.
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.
There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.
I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.
If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
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.
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.
Yoga in America is a joke.
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.
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
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.
Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.
America's biggest problem is too much freedom.
Yoga only works one way.
I always forgave my students, like Jesus.
Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word - 'Bikram' - because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.
Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.
I'm a yogi, not a businessman.
So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.
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 like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.
I started with nothing. Zero.
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.
Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.
Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.
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.
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 both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.
Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.
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 always teach celebrities, all my life.
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.
I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.
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.
Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?
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.
American men are like women.
Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.
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.