Frank Dux

“I thought 'Bloodsport' was going to ruin my career when it was first cut and put together. It was a horrible film. I mean, they put it on the shelf for two years. It wasn't until they allowed Jean-Claude to go in and recut the film that everything came together and it worked.”

“I wasn't a bitter person. I always try to look for the best in people. And a lot of pain, I guess, made me fight. It was just a way to release it. For me, martial arts is just a release. It's a way for me to just flow. Everywhere else in my life I'm like a duck out of water, but put me in that arena and I just swim.”

“As a kid, as a young kid, I was a James Bond fan. And I remember watching a movie where James Bond was doing jujitsu. That kind of caught my fancy. I also remember seeing something on 'Mayberry R.F.D.' with Andy Griffith, where Barney Fife was getting picked on and so he goes to learn judo.”

“Ian Fleming used to base his characters on real people.”

“I sold my sword. I have no regrets for it. It went for a good cause. It went to buy kids out of slavery.”

“I became accustomed to great pain and adversity at a very young age because my feet went 180 degrees in the wrong direction. To get them forward, I wore braces that moved them a little bit every day.”

“When I was growing up, you couldn't even find 'martial arts' in the encyclopedia.”

“I discovered my own way, my own method, my own style. Nobody had ever seen it before. Nobody understood it.”

“All I'll say is, Jean-Claude is an OK fighter and a great performer.”

“Ninja is like 'janitor' in that it's just a job title. The misconception is, you don't actually have to do anything special or know how to do anything special to be a ninja.”