Zitat des Tages von Bikram Choudhury:
You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.
American men are like women.
In India, nobody sues anybody.
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.
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
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.
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.
I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.
I started with nothing. Zero.
Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.
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.
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.
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.
If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.
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.
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.
Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.
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.
You treat an idiot like an idiot.
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?
So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.
Yoga in America is a joke.