Dave Portnoy

“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.”

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

“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!'”

“I'm bigger than the Beatles!”

“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.”

“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're sick of other people saying what other people should laugh at.”

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

“Belichick's the greatest who's ever done it.”

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

“If we sell a T-shirt, that probably means we thought it was a huge event that resonated with our crowd.”

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

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

“You judge a pizza place on their cheese slice.”

“We have this fanatical fan base that wants to see us succeed, and so they get it. They get that to get the free content and all of the things we're doing - whether it be the blog, the podcasts, whatever - we need money. We need advertising. If you want us to go hire Michael Rapaport, well guess what, we need revenue to do that.”

“We make fun of everybody.”

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

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

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

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