Takes
I despise Cavaliers fans but have a kindred love for Browns fans, despite them being the same people
I fucking hate Cavs fans. I like Browns fans. I know they're the same people, and I know that makes me a dumb person... but I truly do despise Cavs fans and have almost like a kindred love for Browns fans.
Steph Curry should get a divorce to become likable again because Americans love a broken person
My advice would be get a divorce. Nobody likes the married guy that's having sex with his hot wife all the time. If you're really good at your job, you get a divorce, you get a lot of sympathy from everybody... get everyone on your side immediately.
Americans do not like perfect people; they prefer athletes who fuck up like normal people
The bottom line is Americans don't like perfect... so just like make yourself more like us, you know, like get caught taking like sending a nude to somebody or sliding into somebody's DMs. Like be just like the rest of us normal Americans, you know, fucking up a little bit.
I would trade four months of being sick with Zika to win a gold medal for my country
Why is it that big of a deal to get the Zika virus if you're going to get a gold medal? I would trade four months of being sick as a dog to win, not win it for myself, but win it for my country. I would shit through a screen door for four months if it meant that my country got a gold medal.
Monogamy is overrated and unrealistic
I happen to think that monogamy is way overrated and unrealistic. And that is a philosophy that I do try to bring into my personal life. And, um, you know, I, I like to keep my options open in general.
Never stay for a third night at a Vegas bachelor party
You want to go for two days like two nights and then fly out of town on the third day. If you stay for the third day, the chance of you dying or getting arrested goes up like 150%.
Don't try to coordinate group activities for a Vegas bachelor party if you have more than six guys
If it's anything more than six guys, don't worry about doing anything together because it just won't happen. Every time I've gone to a Vegas bachelor party, it's been like 15 guys. And there are actually people I don't even know were on the bachelor party because I just never saw them.
Check yourself into the hospital to avoid being in trouble with your mom for missing an event
Check yourself into the hospital. Say you got some kind of injury or something. Cause your mom instantly goes from being furious at you for missing her birthday to so worried about you.
Mother's Day on social media is just a contest to see who can love their mom the hardest
The Mother's Day in the social media era is basically who can love their mom the hardest and tweet about loving their mom... It's become a big contest.
New Zealanders and Australians are just cooler than Americans
Anyone from those two countries [New Zealand and Australia], they're just cool people. That's just a fact. They're cooler than us.
Blake Bortles should embrace male pattern baldness to avoid being hated
You need to let it go. Go full male pattern baldness. If you have a quarterback who has beautiful hair and is ascending and a great quarterback, people are going to come and start hating you. If you have a hilarious male pattern baldness, if you look like Larry David and you're an NFL quarterback... who's going to make fun of you?
Spite is an underrated motive for health and longevity
I think that spite is very underrated as a motive for things and just as an ability to help you get through life. ... Just find somebody that you really hate that you want to outlive. Yes, you got to outlive them.
Millennials are pussies who lack accountability and positivity
I think that he's right that millennials have no sense of positivity when it comes to adversity. If there's one thing I know about millennials is that they don't like it when they're put in a bad situation. Millennials are pussies. Yeah, exactly.
NFL players who post workout videos on social media are annoying; just do your job and show it on the field
I will say that all these guys posting videos of themselves working out now, that I disagree with. That, I mean, I draw the line somewhere. Like, duh, you're doing your job. You're working out. The whole world doesn't need to know about it. Rise and grind, yeah. Show me on the football field.
Hating Philadelphia is the most Philadelphia thing a person can do
Isn't hating Philadelphia like that's the most Philadelphia thing that you can do?
Social media accounts for children should be banned
It's getting to the point in this country where, like, I don't want my children to have social media accounts. I think, like, our country has reached the point where let's just shut it down. Nobody else gets a Twitter account.
You should tip the maid $5 if you stay at a hotel for more than one night
If you stay at a hotel for more than one night, you leave five bucks for the maid. ... Just dump [change] in and it will all even out. If you go to a bar, your first tip is always $2. ... And if you're at a wedding... you hand the guy a $20 bill to start the night.
Laremy Tunsil's stepdad is officially the worst stepdad of all time
If this stepdad really hacked Laremy Tunsil's every account he has, he's by far the worst stepdad of all time. So every other stepdad in relation looks okay.
You can only trust the weather in Chicago between July 4th and Labor Day
It's been classic Chicago because three weeks, two weeks ago, it was 80 degrees and beautiful. Now winter is basically back. And like I said, the only time you can trust Chicago weather is like July 4th to Labor Day.
San Diego is 'fake life' and not real life
San Diego is fake life. It's not real life. There's nothing real about San Diego. There are no fat people. I'm pretty sure no one has a job except if you're in the Navy. It's beautiful every single day. Everyone's just relaxed and like cool. There's no edge.
The best way to get over a hangover is to drink more
My advice, as always, is Pedialyte. Pedialyte tends to work. But most importantly, my advice is to drink a Bloody Mary and then, like, seven beers afterwards. That's what I did this morning. It worked well.
Never plan dinners for a bachelor party
If you're planning a bachelor party, don't plan any dinners. I've never seen a party go from this was fun to just death. You sit down, you eat, and it's just like, okay, now I just want to go to bed.
Big Cat winning the 50-50 raffle would be one of the last great sports stories out there
Big Cat winning the 50-50 raffle is one of the last great sports stories out there. I'm the guy always paying for the 50-50 raffle because I keep telling myself, Oh man, this will be the time I win.
Every person nicknamed Beef in the world is a good time to hang out with
I think every person nicknamed Beef in the world is a good time to hang out with. Now I'm not saying you want them—when Beef comes to visit you, your wife or girlfriend probably rolls her eyes... but Beef is a great time to party with.
The table-jumping trend started because losers of beer pong wanted a way to destroy the table and put an exclamation point on the game
I think that's where it gets started from is, or no, it's probably usually the losers that would just want to destroy the table. You need a strong exclamation point on the game of beer pong, destroying the tables as strong as it gets.
Life is too short to have sympathy for any man who has a large penis
The world, life is too short to shed one tear for a guy who's got a big dick. I don't care if it's a homeless guy or an NFL quarterback. If the guy's got a big dick, he doesn't get any of my sympathy.
Jordan Spieth is a classier person than Cam Newton because he handled his loss like a professional
Something about Jordan Spieth makes him more likable to me and classier of a person than Cam Newton. ... To be a true professional, you have to be able to face the music. How long do you think postgame press conferences after a loss get compared to Cam Newton?
The 2016 Warriors would lose a land war in Russia
I got to take Russia, man. ... That's where empires go to die, baby. You cannot take West Russia in the winter. Napoleon knows it. Hitler knows it. ... So Russia's undefeated. I'm taking them.
If a coach gets their own player pregnant, they have to marry them.
If I were to tell [Tyler Summit] how to handle this, this kind of no brainer. You got to marry the player, right? ... I think it's probably in bounds as long as you're getting married. If you have an intention to get married, then like, yeah, if you're 25 and the girl is above the age of 20, then I say go for it.
Power ranking of sports figures: 1. Football Guy, 2. Hockey Lifer, 3. Baseball Man, 4. Basketball Mind
Football guy number one. We got to go hockey lifer number two because that guy's seen some shit. You have to cross the border 20 times a year. He knows all the smuggling tricks. Hockey lifer's number two. Baseball man, number three. And then basketball mind, number four in my book.
Fireball is an acceptable ballpark drink until September 1st
I like to do airplane minis, like the mini bottles of Fireball... It's kind of like you don't wear white after Labor Day. You don't want to be drinking Fireball after like September 1st. After September 1st, you want to lose the flavored whiskey and get like some Jack Daniels or something because it's about a playoff push. So you got to focus. None of this sugary crap.
Losing a heartbreaker is better than getting blown out because women will console you
I would much rather be on a team that loses by like one point on a half court buzzer beater, because after the game's over, you're a little upset, you're sad, but guess what? There are going to be some chicks around. They're going to want to console you... If you get blown out, like you're even your wife at that point is going to pretend that she doesn't know who you are.
To fix your public image after a DUI, enter treatment, disappear for 40 days, and return with an inspirational tweet.
That's step one, enter treatment. You kind of got to bite the bullet on this one and just say, it's on me, and then disappear for, I don't know, 40 days or something, and then come back with an inspirational tweet, and then you're pretty much good. Everybody will forget about it.
April Fool's jokes are only for women and corporations
I feel like April Fool's jokes are for chicks. Let's be honest. It's for chicks and also like corporations. It's really it's a holiday for girls and for brands. That's about it.
I saw a UFO in Scottsdale that moved way too fast for a normal aircraft
I saw one last year at Scottsdale. Somebody told me we were by the airport, but I was like, don't believe it. Moves way too fast. Awkward movements. UFOs. I was driving north on Scottsdale and I was going to Kierland... And I absolutely saw a UFO. It was like stopping in the air. It was meandering. It was making like crazy [movements].
Dating an Instagram model with over 20,000 followers is asking to get cheated on
I also say that if you, if you date somebody who on Instagram has over like 20,000 followers, you're pretty much asking to get cheated on too. Because, because in her mind, the only thing that matters to her is taking a picture of something that's going to get a lot of likes.
White people need to take back the word 'thug'
I think that white people need to take back the word thug. There we go. That's something that we got to start hating Tom Izzo and take back the word thug.
A heartbreaking three-point loss is more mentally devastating than a twenty-point blowout
I feel like if Wisconsin loses by three points, it's a lot worse for your psyche and your mental state than losing by 20 points because you've checked out at halftime in the UNC case.
If you coach for one year, you earn the title 'Coach' for life
I think that if you coach for one year, you get to be, you get to decide if you want to be called coach or not... no one called Dick Vitale coach. So you do have a point there.
Finding a way to half-ass a job and maintain mediocre performance while keeping job security is a commendable life achievement
If you can figure out a way to half ass your job and do a very mediocre job and like keep the bar as low as possible on what people expect from you, but still keep your job. That's commendable in this world.
Pure 'Football Guys' are likely to become serial killers if they are ever fired and forced to be domesticated
These football guys, you got to watch out for them because if they ever get fired, these are the guys that are going to be serial killers. They don't know what to do with their lives. It's like when Greg Schiano got fired... his family was like, get this weirdo the fuck out of our house.
The best way to quit gambling is through 'aversion therapy' by intentionally losing bets to get a bad taste in your mouth
Teach yourself some—what's it called when you—like aversion therapy? You want to bet on some bets that you know are going to lose. You want to lose some bets and get a bad taste in your mouth from gambling... and you won't want to do it anymore.
Birthdays are only for girls once you turn 20 years old
Birthdays are for chicks now, right? Like after you turn 20 years old, birthdays are for chicks. Hand over your man card, JJ [Watt]. Birthdays aren't men's stuff anymore.
Psychiatrists should give out Adderall prescriptions specifically for the first two weekends of the NCAA tournament
I feel like there needs to be a psychiatrist that gives out prescriptions for Adderall specifically for these first two weekends of the NCAA tournament just to get us through Sunday. That's a genuine medical issue that I'm dealing with right now coming down from like a four-day hangover.
The NCAA tournament needs to provide fans with a 'come down drug' to help transition back to reality on Monday
They need to give you a come down drug tomorrow. Like the fact that we don't get anything [on Monday] is bullshit. You expect everyone to go from this great event that lasted a full entire long weekend to reality on Monday. You can't do that.
Life's too short to bet the unders
I obviously bet overs today. I lasted two games before I broke my one rule that I had spent the entire week pep talking myself into... life's too short to bet the unders in life.
March Madness is the best time of year for office small talk
Is this the best time of year for small talk? ... Because everyone just walking around being like, oh, did you have Yale over Baylor? It's just everyone has small talk. ... It's actually outside of maybe like a blizzard. It's the best small talk piece that you can have in an office. Because it's something that affects everybody.
If you want your team to win, do something weird like faking a heart attack
The bottom line is if you're a head coach and you want to get your team to really get back on the right path, do something really weird. If that's like faking a heart attack or if that's like... like pissing all over your assistants like fanny pack or whatever. Like do something weird. Get your team kind of in a weird frame of mind so that they go out there and act like animals.
If you have a PR disaster like Chris Jones, just do porn to change the headline
If you're Chris Jones, your dick pops out [at the combine], then you get arrested... Maybe you just do porn and like double down again... now you're not the arrest guy. You're the porn guy. You just keep piling on until you kind of cover everything down. Like if I write a bad blog, I'll just keep blogging on top of it and push all the bad stuff down.