- I've been waiting for this product for 20 years.
It beats makeup.
It's a trifecta, and there's nothing wrong with
men and a little makeup.
Trust me, I like it.
I do it all the time.
Hello GQ Sports, I'm Alex Rodriguez
and these are my essentials.
Cut one baby.
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This essential is a must.
This is my notebook.
And it's my A-Rod Corp leather notebook.
Now a couple interesting features here.
I always forget the pen.
Early on I would always ask
people in meetings, "Hey, can I borrow a pen?"
Is there a pen?
Thank you.
So pen is important.
The other feature that's really important
is I write so much junk.
This divider here is perfect.
So, if I have my baseball notes,
or if I have business notes,
or if I have to give a little gift
to my daughter's or something,
or little Max, it's right here.
The logo is the same logo that's on my sneakers,
which I will tell you about later.
But it's just my little A-Rod Corp logo.
Notebook, never leave home without it.
This is essential,
it is very important.
This is my, it's called Complexion Booster
Sun Goddess.
So this lotion gives me a little bit of bronze.
It also gives me a little bit of sunblock.
And a little bit of moisturizer, so,
this is something that I'm coming out with very soon,
this is called a teaser.
And all the men around the world are gonna fall in love
with this product, I promise you.
I've been waiting for this product for 20 years.
Yeah, because as a baseball player,
we take on so much sun
and we take such a beating
that if you can have
a moisture that can give you moisture, sunblock,
and a little bit of color, it is perfect.
It beats makeup.
It's a trifecta, and there's nothing wrong with
men and a little makeup.
Trust me, I like it, I do it all the time.
Coming soon.
It smells,
it smells delicious.
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It is huge.
But I love it, because I have my phone,
I have my iPad in meetings.
I always bring out my notes.
I keep a lot of notes,
I have my Netflix, I have
ESPN+, this is great, it is amazing.
And if I'm in a meeting,
and my girls are bored, I just hand it over,
they're on Instagram, they're on TikTok,
whatever the name of that show is.
It's awesome.
Never leave home with an iPad.
And the large size is like McDonald's,
you need big big.
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So sometimes you have a really, really busy day.
I'm always checking out yoga classes,
especially hot yoga.
And any time I have an hour to spare
I have my tee shirt,
my shorts, and a little bag.
I have my sneakers and my socks.
Any time you can get a great sweat
in the middle of the day is perfect.
I like to go usually black
and I'm a big jogging pants guy
with a tee shirt.
I like to sweat in my legs.
The other thing is, the reason why I like jogging pants
is I wore pinstripes for so many years.
I'm actually used to having my legs covered.
I hardly ever wear shorts.
Well, if you see my legs, maybe,
you wouldn't wear shorts either.
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Now when you have lips as big as me,
you need to invest a lot into Chapstick.
When I was 11 years old, I went to travel
from Miami, where I grew up,
and we took a trip to San Francisco.
And of course, not knowing any better,
it was the middle of the summer,
so I packed a bunch of shorts, tee shirts.
I thought it was gonna be really hot.
And then I found out, that famous saying that,
the coldest winter was my summer in San Francisco.
I was freezing
and my lips, I had like, I looked like the Joker.
I had dry lips, I didn't know what was going on.
I needed to get back to Miami
to the warm, to the humidity.
Miami's home, 305 baby.
But I still need Chapstick and so do you.
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I like Orbit gum.
I like a gum that doesn't have sugar.
But one of the biggest pet peeves that I have is
people that have bad breath.
The people with worst breath, you ever notice,
they wanna speak really close to you.
I don't get it.
So I'll say like,
hey Anita, do we have any gum?
And she'll come, I'll go, oh, thank you!
Want one? [laughs]
And I just always keep 'em near by in the
car, plane, anywhere.
We just always have gum anywhere, or just mints.
So, don't leave home without your gum.
This essential holds essentials.
Once a Yankee, Yankee for life.
I know you Red Sox guys are,
people are hating me right now, but, anyways.
Yeah, you open it up and you have
some lotion, always have a good razor.
Buffett's company, Gillette. [laughs]
I have my,
my Ralph Lauren Polo cologne.
And yeah, a lot of cool things.
Toothbrush, little bit of a toothpick in here.
- [Producer] How much Yankees gear do you have?
- A lot. - Yeah.
- I used to be a player, now I'm a fan, sorry.
Jeff do a boomerang.
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My next essential is very important,
it's sunglasses.
Now, as a young lad growing up in Miami,
I never wore sunglasses.
One, because I didn't really need 'em.
Two, I couldn't afford 'em.
Then the doctor told me,
our Yankee doctor told me that,
with light eyes, you need to protect them.
So I started wearing sunglasses,
and then I got addicted to 'em.
Now it's part of your uniform.
My uniform used to be pinstripes,
now my uniform is sunglasses.
And also becomes kind of a cool fashion thing.
You can also wear 'em like, rock 'em.
But, cool sunglasses, I have many, many pairs.
- [Producer] How many pairs?
Probably like 20, maybe 30.
Here's the rule with sunglasses.
Any time I have sunglasses that cost more than $200,
within 48 hours, I feel like I lose them.
If I buy sunglasses at 7/11 for seven bucks,
I can have 'em for four years.
I try to lose 'em, they pop up in my face.
I can't lose 'em.
I wish they were reversed.
These are free 'cause they sent 'em to me,
and they're very expensive.
I certainly didn't pay for them, [laughs] there's no way.
I am frugal baby, frugal. [laughs]
You ever seen someone on television and their
collar's like popping out like this.
It drives me crazy.
I wanna go through the tube and say,
dude, you've gotta fix your collar.
So a lot of folks don't know about this,
but I use the metal ones not the plastic ones.
And basically you take something like this
and you go up in here
and you just pop one in there.
Very easily if I can do it.
I usually have a mirror, but I don't need one,
'cause I'm like a magician.
- [Producer] You have one in there already.
- You know what I mean, very easy. [laughs]
But anyways, yeah, it usually goes in, I promise you.
And then it just stays nice and firm.
And especially with ties.
This is a very essential part of my wardrobe.
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Now I'm not a jewelry guy.
For me, there's probably two ways
that I express myself is
through my glasses like we talked about
and with my watch.
And I have a nice watch collection,
I don't have anything like 20 watches but I have
probably like half a dozen watches that I like,
and again, depending on what kind of mood I'm in,
I'll mix it up.
And a lot of times when I wear suits
I usually like to wear a leather band with a flat
face, that way my suit can go over.
And other times you kind of wear more bulky watch,
you feel a little bit more like a lion,
and you wanna attack and be aggressive.
Then you put on something like that, but.
This is a Rolex, and,
it's white-gold.
And it's got a nice face,
kind of like a, I guess oyster blue or something,
it kinda just changes with the light.
I probably got this a couple years ago.
And it's a fun one, it's one that
you can have forever.
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My last essential, but not least,
is my cool, new kicks.
And they're called the Corp.
Couple special features is we have
my logo and a little humble brag,
[laughs] or not humble.
696 right here.
The reason why I love these,
it has a little bit of baseball stitching right there.
There's so many times you're dressed up
and you're not sure if you're kind of
wanna go formal or casual.
You wanna wear a suit or jeans.
And I love something you can actually wear with both.
They come in white, blue, black.
And then we're gonna go into university colors.
Hurricane green is gonna be awesome,
for Miami Hurricanes of course.
But, this is a design that I really liked
back in the day, I grew up with
really loving my main man Charles Barkley.
And he had his Nike Air Force Ones.
Inspiration from Charles Barkley,
some of my Nike shoes,
I had a relationship with Nike for over 20 years.
But they're called the Corp, that's it.
The Corp.
For my podcast with Barstool.
So very cool and very comfortable.
I hope I see all of you rocking them.
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Hey GQ Sports, this is Alex Rodriguez.
- All right, that's a wrap. - Cool.
- Thank you so much. - All right.
[group applauds] Good stuff.