Quotes from Dave Portnoy

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

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.

I hate hypocrisy.

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 have a long history of our reputation speaking for itself.

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

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.

You judge a pizza place on their cheese slice.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'll speak to anybody, anytime, anyplace.

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.

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.