Quotes from Bikram Choudhury

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

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.

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.

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

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.

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

Never too old, never too sick, never too bad to start again.

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

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

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

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

Yoga in America is a joke.

Yoga only works one way.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.

I'm a yogi, not a businessman.

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.

You treat an idiot like an idiot.

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