Mets closer Jeurys Familia took a swing at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.

Q: Describe your mentality on the mound. Are you mean?

A: Yeah, yeah. Every time I pitch, yeah. No laughing, no pretty face … serious.

Q: Do you think you are intimidating on the mound?

A: I’m trying (smile).

Q: Are there closers you like to watch?

A: Yeah. The guy from the Padres right now, [Craig] Kimbrel.

Q: Why him?

A: The way he’s pitching, you can see he’s very aggressive on the mound. He doesn’t joke around, he just goes out there and does his job, is aggressive all the time. Fernando Rodney too, from Seattle.

Q: Do you miss being a starter?

A: Not any more. Right now, in the bullpen, we have some fun times, serious times, you know? We can be in the game like every two days, three days in a row. Starting pitcher for me right now, I don’t like it, because I like to be in the game more.

Q: When do you really start to get focused?

A: The fifth inning.

Q: What’s going on inside you when it gets to the eighth inning?

A: I mean, I feel excited if I know I’m going to pitch.

Q: What is it like pitching in the ninth inning knowing that the game is in your hands? Do you like that?

A: Yeah. In my mind I think I’m going to do my job and going to finish the game.

Q: Do you feel pressure?

A: No, not anymore. … The first time, going to close this year, a little bit, but not anymore.

Q: Why no more?

A: I talk with a veteran guy, Bartolo [Colon] every day, and he tells me every time you’re going out there, just try to enjoy [it]. When we’re trying to be perfect, and doing everything perfect, that’s when we start to get a little pressure.

Q: Do you think about the All-Star Game?

A: Not right now.

Q: Why?

A: I think I’m a weird player, because I don’t like to watch numbers. I don’t like to be on the Internet. I don’t like that kind of stuff. I just like to be focused on my job. When I go home, I just try to enjoy my girl and talk to my family, watch a movie, and forget about baseball for a little bit.

Q: When you first came to this country, you were homesick?

A: When I walked out of the door from Immigration, I cried until I landed in the U.S. I’d never been away from my mom and dad.

Q: Tell me something funny that happened when you tried to order food.

A: Sometimes I would call in delivery for my room, and I was trying to order the right one, and she never understood. She’d only say, “What do you say, what do you say?” My English was not good. I just hung up the phone.

Q: So you ate a lot of fast food?

A: Yeah. We have a place close to the hotel, I remember, the name is, I think, Cici’s Pizza. Every night I would go in there.

Q: Do you like pitching in Nueva York?

A: I love it.

Q: Why?

A: First of all,because that’s the team that gave me an opportunity to make my dream. And the same time, I know how the fans support us every time we go out there and we win the game … amazing to me.

Q: How high is your confidence level now?

A: I don’t know that there’s a limit on confidence in any job, but I would say mine must be pretty [high], and I think that’s the key to my success lately. If someone gets a home run against me, or it’s a bad pitch, I just let it go pretty quickly and move on.

Q: Describe your first major league appearance in 2012.

A: We were playing St. Louis. On the phone, Ricky Bones says, “Familia, you’re going into the game.” I said like five times: “Me? Me?”

Q: You were nervous?

A: Oh yeah. There was a lot of people in St. Louis, a lot of people. But when I threw my first fastball for a strike, everything was gone.

Q: You struck out Lance Berkman.

A: Yeah.

Q: So that was a good feeling.

A: Yeah.

Q: And how about your first save, May 13, 2003?

A: I think it’s in Atlanta. We played [10] innings. … Great feeling.

Q: Who did you get out for the last out?

A: [Dan] Uggla, struck him out.

Q: Describe growing up poor in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

A: Growing up in that environment … it wasn’t hard for me, because I knew what my parents’ situation was and what they could give. So I never asked for more than what they could give. I was content and I was happy.

Q: Could you describe your parents’ situation?

A: My father worked in the military and he also worked part time at a gas station, and my mom worked at a small boutique, and together with that they supported five children.

Q: Tell me about your mother.

A: She’s a very special person to me. We didn’t have everything. She showed so much in the way of love and support.

Q: Your father.

A: My father was a great example of a man who worked very hard. He had some physical limitations — he had a hurt leg — but he never let that get him down, he never stopped working hard, and he went out every day to provide for us. He was gone a lot because of work, including the holidays many times, but he worked so hard to give us everything as well.

Q: What drives you?

A: I think both my parents, seeing how hard they worked, my dad even with a bad leg, really pushes me every day to work hard, and now my own little family.

Q: You don’t have any children …

A: I’m going to.

Q: When?

A: Two months.

Q: Congratulations.

A: Thank you.

Q: Boy or girl?

A: Boy.

Q: Name.

A: Mine. Jeurys Jr.

Q: Are you amazed at what Colon has been able to do at his age?

A: He’s awesome, man. He’s happy every time he’s going to pitch.

Q: Describe Juan Lagares.

A: I played with him in the minor leagues. He was a shortstop. At some point, he was frustrated, he don’t want to play baseball anymore. But life changed for him when they put him in center field. … He’s a fighter. Every day he’s going out there and trying to do the best he can. … He’s one of the best outfielders in the major leagues.

Q: Are you a fighter?

A: Yeah, yeah. Every day.

Q: Describe Wally Backman.

A: When I got called up to Double-A, he always talked to me. He said, “You’re gonna be a star in the major leagues.” I think he believed more than me. Sometimes I don’t believe myself and he came to me, talked to me, made me feel better.

Q: Why was Mariano Rivera so great?

A: Like I say always, he’s going to pitch out there like the last day he’s playing baseball. He takes it serious every time he’s going out there.

Q: You live in Corona with your fiancé Bianca.

A: She’s my best friend.

Q: You don’t have to cook for yourself anymore?

A: No (smile).

Q: What’s the best thing she cooks?

A: Everything she cooks, I like it. When I meet her, she didn’t know how to cook.

Q: You used to cook for you and Jenrry Mejia, right?

A: Yeah. But I had a bad experience. I don’t cook anymore.

Q: What happened?

A: I burned my hand.

Q: Do you miss Mejia?

A: Yeah. He’s my friend, he’s still my friend, it doesn’t matter what happened with him.

Q: You spoke to him a few days ago?

A: He told me he’s OK. Everybody knows it’s tough for him.

Q: Why was Allen Iverson your favorite basketball player?

A: The way he played — aggressive. He was the star for the team, too, made a lot of points, and did everything.

Q: Did you play that way?

A: (Laugh) I’d be in the NBA if I played that way.

Q: Were you a center?

A: Yeah, center.

Q: Were you good?

A: So-so.

Q: You liked Kobe Bryant too, right?

A: Yeah. But more Allen Iverson.

Q: You didn’t have money for a glove or equipment to play baseball?

A: It it didn’t matter to me as much at the time because I loved basketball so much that I wasn’t too sad about missing out on baseball equipment.

Q: Why were you a Red Sox fan?

A: My dad. That’s all the games he saw.

Q: Did your dad have a favorite player?

A: Manny Ramirez … Pedro Martinez … Josh Beckett.

Q: Did you watch any of them?

A: Yeah, I watched almost all the games. We just had one TV at home.

Q: What did you like about Martinez?

A: Everything, man, I liked everything. You can see how he easy he can make seven innings, eight innings. At the same time, he’s an aggressive guy. He’s mean on the mound, too.

Q: Did you ever meet him?

A: Yeah. I met him with the Mets in ’08. He was in the rehab in Port St. Lucie.

Q: Did you get his autograph?

A: Yeah. I have it in my house.

Q: Did he give you any advice?

A: I was a starting pitcher when I met him, and he told me it’s more difficult to prepare for four days and to have a bad game.

Q: Three dinner guests?

A: Vin Diesel, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mariano Rivera, to pick his brain.

Q: Favorite movie?

A: “Step Brothers.”

Q: Favorite actor?

A: Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Q: Favorite singer or entertainer?

A: Romeo Santos.

Q: Favorite meal?

A: Rice and beans and chicken.

Q: Favorite Dominican restaurant?

A: Here? Cafe Rubio [Corona].

Q: Are you driven to be great?

A: I don’t view it as wanting to be great long-term, I try to take it day by day, and I try to be great for that day.