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Bikram Choudhury Quotes

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

– Bikram Choudhury

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

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

– Bikram Choudhury

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

– Bikram Choudhury

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

– Bikram Choudhury

I’m a yogi, not a businessman.

– Bikram Choudhury

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

America’s biggest problem is too much freedom.

– Bikram Choudhury

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

– Bikram Choudhury

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

– Bikram Choudhury

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

– Bikram Choudhury

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

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

– Bikram Choudhury

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

– Bikram Choudhury

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

– Bikram Choudhury

I always forgave my students, like Jesus.

– Bikram Choudhury

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

If you can, you must.

– Bikram Choudhury

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

– Bikram Choudhury

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

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

– Bikram Choudhury

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

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

Yoga only works one way.

– Bikram Choudhury

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

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

– Bikram Choudhury

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

– Bikram Choudhury

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

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

– Bikram Choudhury

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

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