You go to Starbucks, and you know what you’re going to get. It’s the same with my yoga. – Bikram Choudhury
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. – Bikram Choudhury
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
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 guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world! – Bikram Choudhury
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. – Bikram Choudhury
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. – 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
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. – 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
