Top 44 Dave Portnoy Quotes

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

I love Boston, but it’s a smaller city for the personalities and video and the other stuff we want to incorporate.

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.

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

You judge a pizza place on their cheese slice.

We have a long history of our reputation speaking for itself.

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.

There are almost no other websites that have the type of readership we do.

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

You can’t put Barstool in a box however hard you try.

I like seeing Roger Goodell squirm.

There is always a line that can’t be crossed. Anything that is said or written from a place of hate will never be acceptable behavior at Barstool.

We’re sick of other people saying what other people should laugh at.

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

Some girls are just cut out to be housewives, drive SUVs and sing in the shower as opposed to being superstars.

I hate hypocrisy.

I’d say we represent the silent majority.

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 will not bow down to the winds of PC culture whichever way they may blow.

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

I make the decisions nobody else has the stomach to make.

I’m bigger than the Beatles!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

This is exactly why Barstool Sports has to exist. We’re one of the few places – maybe the only place – on the Internet where we don’t let agendas dictate what we do.

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.

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

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

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

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

The easiest thing to say is, ‘I’m sorry.’ We don’t do that.

Everything the NFL touches that maybe we should be involved in… we always get the message the NFL frowns upon working with Barstool Sports.

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.

I really don’t turn the other cheek. So when I feel like I’m being attacked, I don’t back down.

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.

I call it as I see it.

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

It’s like, if you sign a guy you know is a punk and a jerk, you can’t complain like, ‘Hey, the punk jerk is acting like a punk jerk!’

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.’

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.