I think I’m both lucky but also unlucky, because sometimes I miss so many matches.

I think I play tennis for, to against a big legend, big court, short time. That’s what I train for. That’s why every day I wake up and I wish I could play those matches, you know. It’s like, for me it’s the best thing can happen is to play against that guy on that stage, you know.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

Casting judgments is an integral feature of what makes us human.

As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I’m real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I’m completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.

He who criticizes, be he ever so honest, must suggest a practical remedy or he soon descends from the height of a critic to the level of a common scold.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible

If you get married they think you’re finished and if you are without a woman they think you’re incomplete.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

The power of accurate observation…is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.