I figured I should have a website, because that's what everybody was doing.
Dave Portnoy
I make the decisions nobody else has the stomach to make.
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.
You judge a pizza place on their cheese slice.
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.
The first time I used 'Viva La Stool,' I was just bragging about something. People grabbed it, and it went viral organically.
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.
Some girls are just cut out to be housewives, drive SUVs and sing in the shower as opposed to being superstars.
I really don't turn the other cheek. So when I feel like I'm being attacked, I don't back down.
I always wanted to find something that I could wake up and not hate doing. Hating your job was probably my nightmare scenario.
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 we sell a T-shirt, that probably means we thought it was a huge event that resonated with our crowd.
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.
The motto is, control our destiny, do new things, where we talk directly with our consumers and aren't dependent on ad revenue.
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.
Ad revenue is important, but we want to be self-sustaining.
You'd never believe how hard it is to find a wetsuit in Boston.
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're a comedy brand that pokes fun at everybody.
We're a comedy site and have made fun of every single race, religion, creed and gender. We've made fun of it equally.
We're sick of other people saying what other people should laugh at.
The easiest thing to say is, 'I'm sorry.' We don't do that.
I think I'm a fairly smart person.
We don't take ourselves very seriously and view working at Barstool Sports as a way to avoid becoming slaves to cubicle life.
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.
We have a long history of our reputation speaking for itself.
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.'
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.
It was always our belief that if we brought out good stuff our fans will like it and we'll go.
I don't know how anyone lives in Miami. Because no one goes to sleep.
Everybody hates Goodell. He unifies all Patriots fans, all New England, everybody hates him equally. He's really a hated guy.
Everything the NFL touches that maybe we should be involved in... we always get the message the NFL frowns upon working with Barstool Sports.
That's the thing about New York, the streets of New York are crazy!
Unless you're getting a dollar slice, there's no real money difference between a chain and your local pizzeria.
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 like sports. We're not apologizing for it.
We will not bow down to the winds of PC culture whichever way they may blow.
I'm bigger than the Beatles!
We make fun of everybody.
I'd go toe-to-toe with anybody in the Boston media over our group, 18-35 year-old guys.
No Barstool writer has ever said or written one thing out of hate or anger. It's always to get a joke.
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 like seeing Roger Goodell squirm.
There are almost no other websites that have the type of readership we do.
I'm never going to be on ESPN, probably. I've burned too many bridges. That's fine.
I call it as I see it.
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.
All Patriot fans despise Goodell.
You can't put Barstool in a box however hard you try.
