You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.
I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.
I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.
Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.
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.
I always teach celebrities, all my life.
I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.
If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.
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.
Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?
American men are like women.
Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.
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.
Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!
Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.
My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.
In India, nobody sues anybody.
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.
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.
You treat an idiot like an idiot.
