Bikram Choudhury Quotes

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'

I started with nothing. Less than nothing.

My journey is self-made because I came from nothing. It's the best feeling now, because I don't really feel like I owe anybody.

You can't start at the top.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.'

Everything starts from a dot.

I came here because I wanted to live the American dream that I had heard of. And I'm a perfect example. I came to New York; I knew no one. I've made a career, a life, so I still believe in that.

'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.

Everybody sees me now, and I'm the head coach at Clemson and this and that, but my life hasn't always been this way.

'Mr. Majnu' is just my way of saying that I am trying to start off from the basics.

The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.

Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top.

I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.

There are people who are hating you more because of where you are coming from. People like the 'he comes from nothing and made it to F1' story. I know that, but I just do my thing; I focus on my job.

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

If you start from nothing, it is very difficult to get anywhere.

Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.

There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.

I had nothing - I come from nothing - but I am something, and I will continue to be something.

I'm not a very materialistic person.

I've just been so blessed in my journey. Fat kid from Oklahoma, buddy - Southern accent and Bell's palsy, becoming a broadcaster and hanging around a fickle business for 40 years. You wonder how in the hell that happened. It was somebody's plan.

A lot of times people say they want a fresh start, but you can't really have a fresh start because it doesn't happen that way.

Sometimes those who bloom too early fade fast. Michael Kors struggled for years - and endured bankruptcy - before he became all rich and famous and fabulous.

Learn from this, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Hell does have an exit, and I found it. For those who are still looking for a way out, I left the door open and I'll be waiting for whoever wants to grow with me.