- What's up GQ?
I'm Emmitt Smith and these are my essentials.
[upbeat music]
Rosewood.
Yeah, this was a gift about two weeks ago I spoke
for a friend of mines in Dallas.
This the first time I ever had had Rosewood and smelled it
and it's my go-to now.
Real nice oak smell, but sweet to it.
Here we go.
Yeah, it smells very good.
- [Interviewer] And I saw you put it behind your ear.
Is that like your go-to spot?
- Yeah, it is and the reason why is because
when you hug people, they smell it.
This right here is my pro-football hall of fame,
gold jacket.
The 260th player to be in enshrined into the hall of fame.
It's only a select few.
You have to earn it.
And this baby here and this puppy here is special.
As a child, I never really had a goal of
becoming a hall of famer.
I wanted and had the desires to play the game of football
at, at a very young age.
But in order to play it at the highest level
you gotta start someplace.
And I started when I was eight years old.
Along the way
a beautiful thing happened.
Rushing more yards than anybody in the history of the game.
You create all kinds of life experiences for others.
And people reward you with something like this.
- [Interviewer] Do you have any words of advice
for the young players?
- Patience. There aren't any shortcuts,
appreciate the process
and don't think that it's just a game.
It's the game of life.
Take all those things utilize 'em apply 'em to everyday life
because you gonna need 'em.
Starburst.
I'm definitely more of a candy person than chocolate.
One of my favorites.
Yes. And I don't really have a favorite flavor.
I go through 'em all.
I mean, I can probably eat this whole pack
in less than five minutes.
Now you gotta have these
especially when you're traveling on an airplane.
You wanna drown out the noise on airplane?
I mean, crying kids and so forth
hollering kids screaming and going on?
Give me these quick.
Turn the music on.
Yeah. All the noise goes away.
Think about it, when I was a kid we didn't have these type
of things in our possession.
We had Walkman's and stuff like that, but put a
a tape in or something of that nature
but you didn't have digital music like we have today.
When I was playing ball, I had
I will listen to that music, gospel music.
I will have a 40 minute playlist of gospel music
because football is mind, body and soul.
Life is mind, body and soul.
Yeah. Now this is my go-to.
Sporting events, any kind of event, any celebration
or just downtime, Tequila Herradura, Ultra Anejo.
Have it on the ball or a cube in a nice lil' glass
like this and just sip on it.
I don't like mixing my liquor any longer.
I'm done with that.
I've graduated to not knowing, to knowing.
And this right here is knowing.
All day, every day and three times on Sunday.
This right here is my travel kit
cause you never know when you may have to Trimm
up the beard, shape up something.
Take care of this bald head, make sure it's
clean and spiffy.
And then I trim up the beard.
The beard start growing when I was like 16, 17.
So, so, but yeah, I've always trimmed it off though.
Now this is not quite my pre-shave oil.
I use True Fit pre-shave oil to get this skin lathered up.
So when the blades hit, it just slides right through
instead of actually eating into the skins.
My location gym place they use pre-shave oil on my head
and on my beard when they use the straight edge razor.
And, and that's the only time I actually use a
straight edge razor was going to gym place
to understand how to shave.
Oftentimes people are not taught how to shave.
And so when you have a place like that, you get trained.
You allow of professionals to do it
and you learn some of the, the tricks.
And one of those things is having pre-shave oil.
Now, when I'm traveling, definitely gotta have my speaker
gotta have some music in the room hotel room or
on a golf course.
My music is there.
Getting my body, my mind into a nice little rhythm.
I got this chill music all the way to New Edition
"Can You Stand the Rain?"
Johnny Gill, "Let's Get the Mood Right".
I just started doing a lot of the classic older stuff
because I was listening at a whole lot of rap.
Lot of Kendrick Lamar, Drake, you name it, Future
a lot of stuff like that.
And then all of a sudden, I just say, you know what?
I wonder how much chill music can I find?
And I start going back through my old playlist of
of things and start adding stuff to it.
I'm a master of probably four hours of music right now.
Now you probably wondering what are these right here?
These are little earplugs.
When I travel on the road or even when I'm at home
I don't want the faintest little noise to wake me up.
They fill up the swell in my ear
blocks out all kinds of noise and I'm off to sleep.
I can hear my alarm go off
but it's drowning out so much noise.
I don't want to be disturbed when I'm sleep.
If I don't have it, I probably go get some tissue,
ball it up, put it in my ear and call it a night.
I haven't always been a smoker.
I tell you what it was.
A guy advised me to stop dipping.
I promised him I would stop dipping and I have.
So I picked this up instead and I only do it on occasions
I don't do it a whole lot, but when I do I know what I want.
My favorite cigar brand is a Carrejo made by GFRs.
I like the thick cigars for when I'm playing golf.
I want a cigar that's gonna last me at least nine holes.
If not nine, the whole 18.
So life is so busy as it is.
So when you have a moment just to relax and sip
on a nice glass of tequila, smoke a nice Carrejo
mellow out and have great conversation with people.
Yeah, this is what I, this is what I go to.
Well, I couldn't bring in my last items
but I will tell you about my golf clubs.
I love to play the game of golf.
I get out probably once a week.
I'm about a 7.1 index on a golf course.
Doesn't mean much cause I'm not shooting 79 every time
I go out and play golf, I shoot in the low to mid eighties.
I started playing golf in 1990.
Just going out with some buddies in college
hitting the ball around, hacking it, drinking beer,
hanging out, acting a fool.
But golf itself is so different from the sport
which I play.
In my sport we can be intense.
We can be emotionally charged up.
We can be angry.
We can lose our emotions and so forth with golf,
if you don't calm yourself down
you really going to mess your golf game up.
You gotta be locked and loaded for, for four hours.
And it's you, your swing and the golf course.
That's why the pros are the pros.
That's why the Joe's are the Joe's.
I just played in the Waste Management Phoenix Open
and PXG did me a huge, huge solid.
I had my clubs shipped to meet me in Arizona.
The shipping got delayed.
So I called my friends over at PXG,
by the time I land there's a brand new set
of PXG's specked to my clubs,
sized to my grip so I can go play in the tournament.
That's service.
Thank you, GQ.
Those are my essentials.
And if I got some more
I'll probably shoot 'em back out to you add to it
but right now, oh
one other thing do not forget you toothbrush.