Dave Portnoy

“I think that I think that going on the offensive is going to become much more the norm. And you're gonna see that.”

“I think it was a big mistake. To go pick on the little guy. He had it right at the beginning when he was picking on the big guy. Oh, business insider. You're trying to ruin my reputation. You're trying to hurt my business and my advertising, my revenues and my…”

“There was a reporter for Business Insider that started reaching out to Barstool's advertisers and saying, Hey, are you aware of the story we wrote about how bad Dave is and businesses and a Barstool? Like, you know, would you like to comment on being an advert…”

“Swinging below, that's the rule here. Swinging below, you can't do. So like when you're trying to create an enemy, you always got to go up. You always have to go up. If you go down, you're a bully. If you go up, you're David.”

“Now, the reaction, I think, is totally inappropriate, and I think it totally makes him look butt hurt. I think it makes him look weak. I think it's a bad move. The reason why it's a bad move is because Dave has fans, and he could be like, well, you know, I'm o…”

“Business insider released an article last week on Friday or Thursday, Coincidentally, right when Barstool, which is owned by a publicly traded company, had their earnings call, they released their article at the same time.”

“I've always said about this about Barstool Sports. I'm like, dude, Dave Portnoy is getting older. Like, some of these antics are kind of not going to be cool anymore. They're more so like pathetic.”

“When he first sold that business, he sold the first portion of it. And at the time, Barstool was a big deal. He only sold it at a fifteen million dollar valuation.”

“It was basically a physical newspaper that Dave would write under, I think, pen names, and it was, you can go find out, the font is so funny, it's like Comic Sans on the internet.”