- I used to eat about
seven or eight bowls of cereal a day.
But I did have to slow down.
Because I was eating it too much
and needed to start eating proper foods.
Hi GQ I'm Marcus Rashford
and these are my 10 essentials from home.
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I'm gonna start with my PlayStation.
And it comes out.
When you're traveling as much as we are
we train for maybe an hour a day to two hours a day.
But the rest of that time you're just resting.
So you just take this, get a few games with you
and you're good to go.
I've been on Call of Duty, FIFA a little bit,
I started playing UFC quite a lot.
And believe it or not Monopoly,
yeah we'll jump on Monopoly,
and it's actually quite fun,
and you get lost in it and you're on there for hours.
It's the only thing that we can't really stop.
You know when you play Monopoly with people,
and it's tense and you can't
take your eyes off the game,
it's the same thing on the PlayStation.
I have a name but I can't disclose it
because I get a lot of friend requests.
More times someone's playing me and they don't know,
especially on FIFA,
because FIFA is like one against one
and you play against different people all around the world.
Because some of the teammates have them
I've colored my P and my A in with a pencil.
[laughs]
Yeah this one's mine.
So you see these bits at the back?
You attach the wheels to that
and then you can pull it like a suitcase.
'Cause it is quite heavy
and you don't want to be holding it all the time.
- Don't they have the ones that are like that big
that you can just pop in your backpack?
- Yeah but it's not a PlayStation is it,
it's not authentic.
If I got my PlayStation
I can speak to my friends online,
I can play with them on the games,
and you know I'm good.
I've always had one football with me everywhere I go
I used to have a certain ball
but I lost it,
I kicked it over a fence when I was younger
and I never went in the garden to get the ball so.
I think a lot of people have seen that ball
it says Marcus's ball on it.
I put Marcus, an apostrophe, then another s
when it's just an apostrophe in it.
It was one of them ones that was just old-fashioned
and beat down and that was my favorite one.
This is actually from this season.
I must've been about 10 or 11 years old
when I first signed with Nike.
In my household, my mom's house, my brother's house,
my sister's, everyone's just got Nike on all the time
and so that's just what we know around here.
My dog's had a little bite out of there
but you know definitely I'll take this one with me.
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This is a must, this is a must.
That stay with me at all times.
'Cause I got a bit fed up
of carrying a heavy laptop everywhere,
so I just got this iPad now,
and it sort of goes into a stand
and then you got a laptop.
And it' got Netflix on it,
I've got all my music on it
from when I was about 11 years old.
So it's got all my old songs
and my brother puts it on a memory stick for me
every time I get a new device.
I listen to a lot of UK artists,
Santan Dave, Stormzy, Aitch, MoStack, Mist.
There's a lot of American artists,
Lil Baby, A Boogie, Drake and Rihanna and Beyonce on there.
When there's new music out I like to stay on that,
but it just depends on the mood,
and then sometimes I like to try
and go back to the old days.
I don't really use my phone
so this is everything.
- You have the generic background.
Was that like a choice or do you just never change it?
- No, just never changed it you know.
I might change it now that you said that. [laughs]
I'm gonna take my headphones, if you put them in it,
it blocks out all the sounds on the outside
and it only plays the music that you're playing.
So these are actually come quite in handy.
Sometimes to be at home there's a lot of distractions,
and definitely during that night before a game,
it's better for me to just get to the hotel
and you know kind of a clear mind
and I don't have to worry about
the dog chewing anything downstairs.
And they really just they stay in my drawer
and it's part of my travel pack so.
No one touches my travel pack.
This is my favorite cereal.
The best way to start the day, it's got everything in it.
It's got dried banana, carbohydrates,
a few nuts in there, raisins.
So I used to be like literally
at the back of the box there in the corner
you'd see me swimming.
I stopped doing modeling when I got sponsored by Nike,
so must've been like about eight years old, seven years old.
My mom might still have the cut-out,
'cause she's probably got it somewhere.
I used to eat about seven or eight bowls of cereal a day.
Like after school I'd eat cereal, cereal
until my mom got home from work,
dinner and then cereal, cereal before I went to bed.
I used to put loads of sugar in it,
rather than going to the shop and getting sweets and stuff.
I just run home quickly and make a bowl of cereal
and then head back out.
But I did have to slow down
'cause I was eating it too much
and needed to start eating proper foods.
But now I have that with fruit and fiber
so this has got to come with me.
So the next one I have got my favorite book,
it's called Relentless From Good To Great To Unstoppable.
And someone recommended it to me
when I was about 18 years old.
I've read it three or four times
and I've learned something different every time I read it.
Can you see the lines on there?
So I like to have a pen with me
and I can write out which bits I want to improve on
or which bits I feel like I got already.
I think for me in terms of mentally,
which is something that in my profession,
it has to be as good as it can be
this book definitely taught me a lot,
so I take this book with me, 100%.
This is Louis Vuitton, this one.
It's keeping in good shape,
it's got everything I need in here.
I've got my brush, I've got my comb,
my afro comb because quarantine my hair's been getting long.
Shower gel, my sponge, and then toothpaste and toothbrush.
It's just for travel really
so what I have in here, I have another in my bathroom.
So when I'm at home I don't actually use these ones.
You get used to it, traveling all the time
I've got to prepare myself previously
otherwise I'll forget things,
I'd even forget my passport,
so I have to make sure that's out and ready.
It keeps my essentials ready for me.
So I've got my these are actually
an old pair of football boots.
I think they were from 2018,
I probably played certain games in these boots
and that's the reason why I kept them in the house.
Yeah I've kept these ones
and these are the ones I use like
if I'm having to kick around or something like that.
I just throw these ones on.
- How do they smell?
- They're actually not that bad
'cause they've not been worn that many times,
I have boots for games, but separate boots for training.
So I can imagine my training ones
aren't smelling too good, but these ones are all right.
Do you actually want me to show you the most iconic ones?
One sec, let me get them.
There's a famous footballer, Brazilian Ronaldo,
but yeah it says 2016,
he picked four or five players
to wear sort of a replica print of his boots
that he wore in '98.
And then I've got a picture on the back
of me wearing them in the game.
The other ones in there as well.
I kind of kept both of them 'cause this actually comes off.
So these boots have only ever been worn once in that game
and then I put them in this box
and I've never worn them again.
It's actually still mud on the bottom.
No one can put these on again now, they're too special.
You know it's one of them things
as soon as somebody comes in your house,
they want to look at it and know what's what
and sometimes they want to touch it,
and I don't like people doing that,
so I need to put it in a more quiet place.
I know I'm gonna lock them away in my safe.
Up.
Good boy.
So this is my final piece to my puzzle.
Yeah he's a Cane Corso, he's an Italian Mastiff.
They're naturally quite good guard dogs
so you can have them
and you don't really need to train them,
but this one's been trained.
Sit.
And I've always had a dog in my family
but this one is my probably first dog,
that I've actually looked after
and sort of brought up
and he's been around me all his life.
He's about four years old now.
Got him when he was three months old,
he really is a dog that anybody can be around
if you get to know him.
But then at the same time,
he's obviously trained to protect
the people that he loves,
so yeah definitely bring this guy with me.
Okay guys my time is up.
Thank you for having me GQ and these are my 10 essentials.
Everybody stay safe.