Quotes by Bikram Choudhury

About Bikram Choudhury:

Bikram Choudhury is an Indian yoga teacher and the founder of Bikram Yoga, a form of hot yoga performed in a series of 26 hatha yoga postures done in a hot environment of 40 °C (104 °F).
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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 have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

Bikram Choudhury

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

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Yoga in America is a joke.

Bikram Choudhury

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

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

Bikram Choudhury

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

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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

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

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Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.

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

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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 ...

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.

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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.

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In India, nobody sues anybody.

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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.

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When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

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You treat an idiot like an idiot.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameBikram Choudhury
  • DescriptionYogi
  • BornFebruary 10, 1946
  • CountryIndia