Top 45 Dave Portnoy Quotes

I always wanted to find something that I could wake up and not hate doing. Hating your job was probably my nightmare scenario.

We make it very clear, we don’t want our fans to say over-the-line things. But if someone is saying, ‘I can’t wait for Dave Portnoy to go out of business,’ I don’t care if our fans say, ‘You’re the worst.’

I’m never going to be on ESPN, probably. I’ve burned too many bridges. That’s fine.

When have I ever said I don’t want to sell out? I’ve been the most honest, ‘I’m going to sell out right in your face’ when I get the chance.

I’d say we represent the silent majority.

All Patriot fans despise Goodell.

There’s so much PC police. There’s so much, ‘You can’t do this, you can’t do that.’ We’re the exact opposite.

Do I like Manhattan? No. Do I want to be in Manhattan? No.

I figured I should have a website, because that’s what everybody was doing.

Everything related to the NFL, we’re banned from. Whether it be Media Day, whether it be even doing negotiations for TV shows, everybody’s afraid of the NFL in their relation to us because they know they don’t like us.

It was always our belief that if we brought out good stuff our fans will like it and we’ll go.

No Barstool writer has ever said or written one thing out of hate or anger. It’s always to get a joke.

The fact that Manti Te’o thought for a long time that he was dating, like, a fake girl and then that she died and did the tribute and the girl never existed. I mean inherently that’s funny.

We’re a comedy site and have made fun of every single race, religion, creed and gender. We’ve made fun of it equally.

If you’re ordering chain, you’re a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that’s better than a chain. They can’t stand up to a local pizzeria.

We have no union at Barstool Sports. Nobody is trying to make a union at Barstool Sports.

Our readers get what we do, and I don’t think about what it’s going to look like to the outside world. I don’t really care.

Unless you’re getting a dollar slice, there’s no real money difference between a chain and your local pizzeria.

You judge a pizza place on their cheese slice.

I feel like I see more and more Neapolitan style, that I call ‘fancy pizza’ – that’s not my cup of tea; I think it all tastes the same.

We really want Barstool Sports to be a brand that means something. It doesn’t just have to be myself… you see the logo, that bar stool and the stars around it, and you know you’re getting a certain type of vibe, a certain type of brand.

I don’t know how anyone lives in Miami. Because no one goes to sleep.

I go on EEI shows. I go on with people I like.

I’d go toe-to-toe with anybody in the Boston media over our group, 18-35 year-old guys.

It’s strange: There are feminists who like Barstool and then feminists who hate Barstool.

We make fun of everybody.

Everybody hates Goodell. He unifies all Patriots fans, all New England, everybody hates him equally. He’s really a hated guy.

I think I’m a fairly smart person.

The people at Barstool Sports are a bunch of average Joes, who like most guys love sports, gambling, golfing and chasing short skirts.

I want to make a boatload of money and i want to poof and maybe make it on the senior tour, live on islands, get a bigger Nantucket house.

We like sports. We’re not apologizing for it.

I call it as I see it.

I’m bigger than the Beatles!

That’s the thing about New York, the streets of New York are crazy!

I hate hypocrisy.

The first time I used ‘Viva La Stool,’ I was just bragging about something. People grabbed it, and it went viral organically.

People know I’m a Jake Paul guy. I respect people who take over the Internet, and this guy has got maybe more haters than I do, which I also love.

I like seeing Roger Goodell squirm.

We’re a comedy brand that pokes fun at everybody.

Belichick’s the greatest who’s ever done it.

I like coal fired. I’m definitely, generally, always a coal-fired guy. Crispy, don’t do a ton of sauce, but kind of a well-done, coal-fired pizza is my jam.

The motto is, control our destiny, do new things, where we talk directly with our consumers and aren’t dependent on ad revenue.

We don’t take ourselves very seriously and view working at Barstool Sports as a way to avoid becoming slaves to cubicle life.

Everybody is saying, ‘ESPN is not cool, no one is paying attention to ESPN, they’re all paying attention to the Barstools of the world.’ Why? Because we’re authentic.

We don’t back down from controversy – we fan the fires. People think we go out of our way to create it, but we don’t.