Bikram Quotes

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

I always forgave my students, like Jesus. ~ Bikram Choudhury

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

I'm a yogi, not a businessman. ~ 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

I work out six days a week. I do pilates, Bikram yoga and spinning. Every once in awhile, I'll throw weights in. I like to get some kind of cardio in every day, even if it's just hiking. ~ Sprague Grayden

Yoga is the most boring exercise. It's for people who are too lazy to get on the elliptical. Bikram, where they heat up the room to mimic India's climate, is especially stupid. People in India are not skinny because they're doing yoga in 105-degree rooms; they're skinny because there's no food. ~ Noureen DeWulf

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy. ~ Lady Gaga

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

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

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

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

American men are like women. ~ Bikram Choudhury

Yoga in America is a joke. ~ Bikram Choudhury

Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself. ~ Rajashree 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

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

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? ~ Bikram Choudhury

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga. ~ Bikram Choudhury

Never too old, never too sick, never too bad to start again. ~ Bikram Choudhury

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

I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips. ~ Emily Blunt

Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit. ~ Bikram Choudhury

Still, happiness will depend on conditions favoring it. Lose those conditions and you lose your happiness. So, if your ability to affect happiness is so limited, the question becomes this - is happiness, then, really worthy of being the ultimate goal of life?" I'd ~ Bikram Dhillon

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

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

It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga ... It's just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward. ~ Bikram Choudhury

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

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

If you can, you must. ~ Bikram Choudhury

Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser. ~ Bikram Choudhury

I don't chase money, money chase me! ~ Bikram Choudhury

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

The World is my home & India is my living room. I'm independent in my living room to explore,hoping someday I will also be able to explore my own home. ~ Bikram Mahata

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude. ~ Bikram Choudhury

I started with nothing. Zero. ~ Bikram Choudhury

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. ~ Bikram Choudhury

It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water. ~ Bryan Cranston

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

I love nothing more than taking my dog, Molly, for a long walk on Sunday morning. Then I'll indulge in some Bikram yoga or something fun like reflexology. ~ Donna Air

Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world. ~ Bikram Choudhury

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

You treat an idiot like an idiot. ~ Bikram Choudhury

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. ~ Bikram Choudhury

I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it. ~ Natalie Dormer

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

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. ~ Bikram Choudhury

I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before! ~ Amish Tripathi

When I first started working on 'Secret Diary,' I definitely felt like I needed to shape up. The idea of being in my knickers on TV was a great incentive! Now I try to eat right, and I go to Bikram yoga three or four times a week. I have my 'naughty' days, and I indulge in pizza and cake, but so what! ~ Ashley Madekwe

I'm getting into all sorts of L.A. things. I go to bikram yoga, I went to an astrologer recently ... I'm accepting L.A. for who she is. She's a dark temptress. ~ Casey Wilson

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

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. ~ Bikram Choudhury

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Bikram Choudhury

I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed. ~ Richard C. Armitage

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

Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition. ~ 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

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

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength. ~ Bikram Choudhury

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

Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like. ~ Bikram Choudhury

Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~ Bikram Choudhury

Yoga has so many different practices. I don't really enjoy Ashtanga. I don't really enjoy Bikram because I don't like knowing what's coming. ~ Bethenny Frankel

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