- We talk at least two to three times a day.
I'll get a call in the morning.
Noah, yeah, what are you doing?
Going to practice, Mom.
Oh, okay.
I'll call you later.
Three minutes later.
Noah, yes.
I forgot why I called you.
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What's up GQ.
I'm Noah Lyles and these are my 10 essentials.
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So first item is my phone.
It's a standard iPhone 11.
Of course I got my case and actually has Tokyo on it.
You know, Tokyo Olympics, I didn't get a phone case
and it's like, yeah, I'm punching my ticket to Tokyo.
So it definitely had to be a thing.
So my screen server has
I will be the 2021, 3 time Olympic Gold Medalist.
And that is the screensaver on my iPhone.
I visualize it and then make it a reality.
Thing that I probably use it the most for?
Two things, music and reading Manga.
I'm a huge anime fan.
I can't get enough of it.
All my friends are into it.
I grew up on it
since I was like probably like 13 all the way up to now.
It's been getting more and more popular,
but I feel like we were the generation
that really set it off.
I'm going out there with Anime socks.
Like this is my love.
In the early days,
I used to read it on websites because they didn't have apps
for it yet because it wasn't that popular.
And then eventually it became popular enough
where you can just go out and read it on apps.
So now I have like three different streaming services
for anime.
Like it is taken very serious in my house.
My Nintendo Switch is next.
I also play a lot of video games, but my Nintendo Switch
is probably my best travel tool.
I remember I was actually on a plane ride, flying to Robot
and this girl had a Switch
and she was playing Mario Kart and I pulled out mine
and we didn't speak the same language
but she knew that we were about to play Mario Kart.
We set up a game
and yeah I whooped that little girl's butt.
Next item, my Omega watch.
I actually have four watches.
I'm actually sponsored by Omega watches.
They gave this to me after I won world championships.
'Cause I asked for a diamond crested watch.
'Cause I was like, all the cool people have it,
all the rappers and the rich guys have it, I want one.
So they gave one to me and I was super shocked.
And then they sent me another one.
This one is really cool
'cause I think they only made like little over 2000 of them.
This one is the 2020th standing for 2020.
They were planning to give this to me.
When I made the 2020 Olympic team.
Of course it didn't happen
but it was still really cool to see.
This is definitely a watch that I plan
on giving this to probably my kids.
It's just a really good time piece that like dear
to my heart, if I lost this one, I would be heartbroken.
What's really cool,
is that Omega is the sponsor of The Olympics.
They actually make the blocks that we start in.
I'm always ready when The Olympics comes.
I'm like oh yeah, these blocks.
I know them.
You guys are just playing in them.
Let's move into something more fun.
Raisin Bran Crunch, a necessity of all necessities.
I'm an athlete as most people know.
And because we have dietary restrictions
trying to, not to eat a lot
of sugar or go out and, crush on some donuts.
I got onto cereal.
So every night,
I would start eating a bowl of cereal
and I was really into Rain Bran.
But then they came out
with Raisin Bran Crunch and I was just all over it.
Everybody mocks me because it's like,
yo this is an old people cereal.
I'm like, but have you tried it though?
And they're like, I mean, I haven't tried that one
then I don't want to hear it.
'Cause the crunch makes all the difference.
All right next.
So this looks like a blank page
but this is actually my sketchbook
and I just lost the front cover.
I've had this sketchbook since 2015.
Since they have a lot of pages you just end up,
keeping them for awhile.
And I've actually had a lot of ideas
come out of this sketchbook, but I always have a sketchbook
around because I'm an artist I love to doodle.
I love to draw.
I love to paint.
I got skateboards at home that I've painted,
but of course I have to draw them first
before I can get them out there.
I got all different types.
I think I got pencil, colored pencil, oil pastel in here.
Oh yeah.
This one was made with like colored pencil and oil pastel.
This is Carnegie from Tokyo Ghoul,
anybody, all my animal lovers will know who that is.
I've been doing art classes
all types of different mediums
since I was probably like shoot, five years old.
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These are my Y-3 boots.
These puppies go with almost all my outfits.
I could be literally thinking of like the best outfit.
And I'm like, I don't got the right shoes
and I'll just be like, you know what?
I'm going to just grab these.
I remember when I first got them
because I was at the Adidas headquarters,
they are like we only have one more pair of these.
And I was like, well, what size are they?
And they're like, they're nine.
And I'm like, oh, I only wear like size 11 to 12.
But in the black community,
when your mom always tells you to get a size up
so she doesn't have to buy you more.
I had put in my head that I was a size 12.
It wasn't until I went to Adidas
and I kept saying, you know, these shoes don't fit.
And then they told me I was a size nine
and I didn't believe them
until they said these are a size nine.
And I was like, well,
let me just put them on to see if they fit.
Best believe that they fit very snugly.
I was heartbroken and happy at the same time.
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This is my 23rd birthday gift to myself.
I started realizing that I had to start,
getting myself birthday gifts.
And I was like, I want to go big.
And I had wanted a Cuban Link for a long time.
So I was just like, I'm not just gonna get a regular one.
I'm gonna get a rose gold diamond encrusted Cuban Link.
It's beautiful.
This is one of my favorite things.
My friend told me I had to name it.
So her name is Cleopatra.
My mom says that she gonna steal it from me.
So it's under the safe watching guard.
This is like my showroom piece.
Whenever I'm putting together a really good outfit
I'm like, I want people to look at me.
I put on Cleopatra.
It's a done deal.
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Keeping on the Anime trend, my next item is my socks.
Now I bought these specific socks
because this is what I ran my fastest 200 meter time in.
I became the fourth fastest man ever to live
in the 200 in these socks.
They're the ones that got the title right now.
They're the best ones.
So, they get to come out and they get to be on GQ.
I have a sock for every occasion.
Every mood.
Socks are very important to me.
So, having the right socks
especially when I step out on the track,
is a must have.
I need the material to be like thicker.
I don't want it to be moving around in my spikes.
There's like a 50-50 split in the track world
on if you should wear socks with spikes.
I'm somebody who believes that you should wear socks
with spikes.
So I want to make sure that my foot is not jostling around
and you know, getting agitated.
So I wear thicker socks.
Sometimes I'll have Dragon Ball Z socks.
Sometimes I'll have Mortal Kombat.
It's all dependent on what I want the theme to be
for that race.
For regular socks, oh man,
I'm really into floral.
So if I see a lot of floral patterns,
I'll be instantly grabbing those.
Or if I see colors that are like bright,
you might see somebody with like SpongeBob socks.
I'll be like, yeah, where'd you get those?
I want those.
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Get to my laptop here.
I brought my laptop
because just like I do art, I also like to make music.
I also like to play video games with my friends.
Also likes to do digital design
and having a laptop that can do all that
is very important to me.
I was gifted with this laptop by Intel
and they gave it to me for the theme of the Tokyo Olympics.
So this has become like my most used thing in the house.
It's actually half touch screen.
And it's a tablet at the same time.
It's my go-to everything computer.
Yeah, just come on in.
So this is my final essential.
My family.
My brother Jesevus, my mom, Keisha Bishop.
Basically, we've been through everything together.
My brother also runs for Adidas.
We train together.
We've been training
since we both started track back in like '12-'13.
We've never not lived together.
So out of 23 and 22 years, we're ride or dies,
at this point.
And then of course my mom was, always been there for me.
She's definitely my moral support.
We talk at least two to three times a day.
I'll get a call in the morning.
Noah, yeah, what are you doing?
Going to practice, Mom.
Oh okay, I'll call you later.
Three minutes later.
Noah, yes.
I forgot why I called you.
I was supposed to tell you that I'm coming down next week.
Oh cool, Mom.
We're a very strong team
and we get things done together
and without them, I couldn't be anywhere where I am today.
All right, GQ.
Thanks for checking out my essentials.
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