Dave Portnoy Quotes, Thoughts & Sayings

By profession, David Portnoy is an American who has become a well-known internet celebrity as a journalist for Barstool Sports. By trade, he’s known for establishing Barstool Sports, a sports and pop culture blog. I have compiled a list of Dave Portnoy Quotes in this article that will motivate and inspire you.

Mr. Portnoy graduated from the University of Michigan in 1999 and has worked with an IT firm Yankee Group since then.

After leaving the Yankee Group, Dave Portnoy launched Barstool Sports, a blog dedicated to sports. Since then, he has sold most of the business to various shareholders.

Portnoy is also a co-chief executive officer at Cryo-Cell International Inc.

In 2017, Dave launched a podcast called “One Bite with Davey Pageviews.” This program is quite popular on social media. In various cities, the Barstool founder can be seen evaluating different Pizza restaurants.

NameDavid Portnoy 
Born22 March 1977 (age 45 years)
Place of Birth Swampscott, Massachusetts, United States
EmployerBarstool Sports (2003–present)
EducationUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBlogger and Internet Celebrity

Dave Portnoy Quotes For Your Success

I make the decisions nobody else has the stomach to make.
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Dave Portnoy Quotes For Your Success
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.
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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.
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It was always our belief that if we brought out good stuff our fans will like it and we’ll go.
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The motto is, control our destiny, do new things, where we talk directly with our consumers and aren’t dependent on ad revenue.
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It was always our belief if we brought out good stuff our fans will like it and we’ll go.
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You can’t put Barstool in a box however hard you try.
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I’m never going to be on ESPN, probably. I’ve burned too many bridges. That’s fine.
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If you listen to what people say on social media, you’ll never leave your mom’s basement.
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Everybody hates Goodell. He unifies all Patriots fans, all New England, everybody hates him equally. He’s really a hated guy.
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The easiest thing to say is, ‘I’m sorry.’ We don’t do that.
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There are almost no other websites that have the type of readership we do.
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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.
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We’re a comedy brand that pokes fun at everybody.
Dave Portnoy Quotes
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.
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I really don’t turn the other cheek. So when I feel like I’m being attacked, I don’t back down.
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I’d go toe-to-toe with anybody in the Boston media over our group, 18-35-year-old guys.
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Ad revenue is important, but we want to be self-sustaining.
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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!
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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
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We’re sick of other people saying what other people should laugh at.
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Anyone who says ‘paper hands,’ I’d like to wrap them in toilet paper and glue lettuce to them and set them afloat in the ocean.
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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.
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You’d never believe how hard it is to find a wetsuit in Boston.
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You judge a pizza place on their cheese slice.
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I figured I should have a website because that’s what everybody was doing.
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I’d say we represent the silent majority.
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We don’t take ourselves very seriously and view working at Barstool Sports as a way to avoid becoming slaves to cubicle life.
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We have no union at Barstool Sports. Nobody is trying to make a union at Barstool Sports.
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We will not bow down to the winds of PC culture whichever way they may blow.
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love Boston, but it’s a smaller city for the personalities and video and the other stuff we want to incorporate.
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I always wanted to find something that I could wake up and not hate doing. Hating your job was probably my nightmare scenario.
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All-Patriot fans despise Goodell
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We have a long history of our reputation speaking for itself.
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I’d say we represent
the silent majority.
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It’s strange: There are feminists who like Barstool and then feminists who hate Barstool.
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If we sell a T-shirt, that probably means we thought it was a huge event that resonated with our crowd.
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The people at Barstool Sports are a bunch of average Joes, who like most guys love sports, gambling, golfing and chasing short skirts.
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We’re a comedy site and have made fun of every single race, religion, creed, and gender. We’ve made fun of it equally.
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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 behaviour at Barstool.
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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.
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When have I ever said I don’t want to sell out? I’ve been the most honest, ‘I’m going to sell outright in your face’ when I get the chance.
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We make it very clear, that we don’t want our fans to say over-the-line things.
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Wrapping Up – Dave Portnoy Quotes

Dave Portnoy is one of the most popular bloggers in the world. He is also the founder of Barstool Sports, a website that covers sports and pop culture. Dave Portnoy net worth is $120 million as a result of his efforts. Portnoy has grown his website’s traffic by millions of visitors daily. This has resulted in him making considerable money in his line of work.