Yankees rookie first baseman Greg Bird took a swing at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.

Q: What is the biggest obstacle you’ve had to overcome?

A: That’s a good question. I think the biggest obstacle you have to overcome in professional baseball is failure, to be honest with you, learning to deal with failure. How to move on, and how to not let it affect you and how to remain confident and how to keep going and get to work the next day.

Q: What is your on-field mentality?

A: I’d say I like to stay in the moment. I like to stay levelheaded. You can’t get too far ahead of yourself, and you can’t worry about what just happened.

Q: What drives you?

A: I think to go out and win games. I think that’s the most important thing. And I think not letting my teammates down, too, and I think that kind of goes hand-in-hand — winning games, and winning games for each other. … I don’t want to fail because I know they put in a lot of work, and I know I do, too, and I don’t want to let them down.

Q: Give me a scouting report on Greg Bird.

A: My scouting report on me? (chuckle) I like to think that I use all fields, and have good plate discipline, and gonna swing at strikes, and gonna make you work hard to get me out. I don’t want to be an easy out up there. I want that pitcher saying, “I’m gonna have to work to get this guy. I don’t want to face him, he’s a tough out.”

Q: Who are hitters you like to watch?

A: For sure Alex [Rodriguez]. [Carlos] Beltran as well. Growing up, I did like to watch Joe Mauer a lot. I told him (chuckle) that when we were playing them. [Joey] Votto. … There’s a lot of them, honestly. … [Mike] Trout … some of the things he does are just … out of this world.

Q: What have you learned about Rodriguez as a teammate?

A: Oh, that he’s a first-class teammate, and a winner. I think the most fun for me here had been the fact that, no matter what anyone does, it’s only about winning. If everyone has a terrible day, but that one guy has a great one and we win, everyone’s happy. He’s got a confidence about him that is really, I think, unique and really fun to watch. And I think it’s important in baseball, you gotta have that confidence.

Q: Do you feel any pressure filling Mark Teixeira’s shoes for however long he’s out?

A: I mean, honestly, I’m not trying to fill anyone’s shoes. I’m just trying to help the team win, and do my job.

Q: What do you know about the Yankees’ tradition?

A: Just the great players that have come through the clubhouse. And I think the one thing that’s common with all the great Yankees is championships. I mean, Yogi [Berra] won 10?

Q: How do you feel about playing in this market?

A: This is the best. I mean, going back to just the people that have come through the clubhouse, the players, the staff. … It’s an honor and a privilege every day just to continue that tradition here. Just the way things have been done here. And it’s something that I take serious. It’s a blast playing here, the fans are great, the city’s great. I haven’t spent too much time here, but it’s really been an experience I’ll never forget.

Q: Is there a Yankee Way?

A: Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think there’s just some class that goes with playing here. Wearing the pinstripes, stuff like that. Clean-shaven, clean-cut. I guess that’s the way it’s always been done, but there is definitely something about it.

Q: What was it like the first time you put on the pinstripes here?

A: (Chuckle) As weird as it’s gonna sound, it felt like home. It felt like, “This is where I should be.” If you [had] asked me 10 years ago, or told me I’d be playing in Yankee Stadium, I probably would have not believed you, I guess. … It felt like it fit me.

Q: Describe meeting Derek Jeter in spring training in 2012.

A: I’m standing in the training room talking to one of the trainers. And out of the corner of my eye, someone walks up. This is like before spring training started. And I finish talking, and I turn, and it’s Jete. And … I mean, like a deer in a headlights almost (smile). And luckily, he stuck out his hand and I said, “Hey, nice to meet you, I’m Greg.” But talk about an experience, and that goes for all those guys … the first time seeing ’em in person is always so like different to me, because you’ve only seen ’em on TV your whole life. And then all of a sudden they’re standing in front of you, and it’s like, Whoa! (smile).

Q: How do you resist the temptation here of that short right field porch?

A: That’s kind of been my approach growing up and since I started pro ball was I have a set approach that I’m trying to accomplish every day, and I can’t control necessarily where the ball goes, I can only control how hard I hit it. So that’s kind of been my thing is put the barrel on it, swing at strikes, and whatever happens, happens. You can’t try to force anything, you can’t try to do too much, you just had to let it take care of itself.

Q: Describe the Bleacher Creatures and the Roll Call.

A: (Chuckle) That was a hell of an experience. Everyone in the dugout’s been telling me to do this (flaps both arms). But I can’t do that! You know something about them, they actually came to Charleston [S.C., Single-A] when I was there in 2013. So I got to experience it once there before I got here. But definitely something unique about Yankee Stadium, and it goes with the tradition.

Q: What’s it like being in a pennant race?

A: It’s like what you dream of, you know? You watch it on TV your whole life, and then it feels like it’s so far away and then all of a sudden you’re in it. It’s definitely like a dream come true, and it’s special. The atmosphere every day is great, obviously, not only here, but on the road, too. There’s Yankee fans everywhere. So it’s fun, you know? Every day means something. You’re not going out there and going through the motions. Every day means something. And only one thing matters and that’s winning every day. So you don’t have the attitude, you don’t have the selfishness — all everybody cares about is winning that day.

Q: The Yankees considered you an untouchable at the trade deadline.

A: I like to stay on the field as far as that stuff goes. Honestly, I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to it. I’m not on Twitter or any of that either, so that helps, so I don’t really hear about it. But I wanted to play for the Yankees, so if they want to have me, that’s great, and I was excited to stay here. But that’s out of my hands, and I didn’t really pay a whole lot of attention to it.

Q: What was your dream as a kid?

A: Depending on what season it was, it was that sport, I think. Hockey season, basketball — I think I realized pretty early that I wasn’t gonna be playing basketball. But I would say probably from about the time I was 9 or 10 years old, I wanted to play baseball. I just always dreamed of playing in the major leagues, and that’s why when I got the opportunity out of high school, I wanted to do that.

Q: Who is your biggest baseball influence?

A: I had a coach ([John Cronican] when I moved to Denver [from Memphis, Tenn.] who taught me the importance of the little things in baseball — discipline, swinging at good pitches, stuff like that. “Do the little things,” that’s what he used to harp on. The little things count, defense counts, stuff like that, saving runs. It just always stuck with me, and I think it served me well.

Q: Who are you more like, your mom or your dad?

A: Hmmm. … I say I got the perfect mix. My mom’s very, very outgoing, and likes to chat, and has a little bit of a fiery side, I’d say. And then my dad’s very calm, collected, easygoing. Once he gets to know people he’ll talk more.

Q: What brings out your fiery side?

A: (Pause, chuckle) That’s a good question. When I was growing up playing other sports, it came out more. When I was little, I had more of a temper in baseball. I think it’s definitely something to be able to control your emotions, especially in this sport. So that’s something I take pride in. But every once in a while that’ll come out.

Q: Are you taking the subway now?

A: Sometimes I take the subway, most days I’ve been taking like a car or Uber.

Q: What’s it like living in a hotel in midtown Manhattan?

A: Obviously you do it on road trips all through the minor leagues, but once I got to [Triple-A] Scranton this year, I started living in a hotel at home, too, just because it’s a little easier … just in and out, no paperwork, no nothing, just in and out. So I’ve kind of gotten used to it, I don’t mind it — they make your bed, and you get new towels every day, so that’s nice, too (chuckle).

Q: And you don’t cook for yourself, right?

A: You know something? My hotel this homestand, it’s got a kitchen. I like cooking breakfast in the morning. So today I woke up and made breakfast.

Q: So you switch hotels?

A: I just have a different room than I had last time.

Q: What did you make for breakfast?

A: Eggs and some smoked salmon and some fruit.

Q: Are you recognized when you take the subway?

A: No, not really. Which is nice, I guess (smile). Low-key. There’s so many people here and so much going on that everyone’s doing their own thing, so that’s good.

Q: Any favorite New York City things yet?

A: People-watching (smile).

Q: There’s no better place, right?

A: Yeah. I just am amazed at how many people, and how much there is going on all the time. It’s unbelievable. Horns, sirens, like non-stop, all day every day, all night, stuff’s going on all the time.

Q: If you could face one pitcher in history to test your skills against, who would that pitcher be?

A: I think you have to go with Cy Young, right? The best pitcher of the year award is the Cy Young award, so that seems like a good one (smile).

Q: Who are athletes in other sports you admire?

A: I’m a Packer fan. Definitely Aaron Rodgers. … Peyton [Manning]. … I always say like in baseball, too, I don’t have a favorite player, I like watching good players, and good leaders. And to me, a good quarterback is someone that is kind of a definition of that. They’re the leader on the field, and I like to just see how they interact with the other players, and how they perform. I would like to see it firsthand at some point, but I’d really like to talk to some of those guys and kind of see what’s going through their head. I think it’s just amazing how Peyton, he’s like an offensive coordinator out there. He runs the whole field pretty much, and there’s something to be said about that, so I’d be curious just to see what goes into his preparation.

Q: Eli Manning?

A: I like Eli. I think there’s something to be said about him as well. He’s a winner. He’s won, what, two Super Bowls? I feel like a lot of people give him a hard time, but there’s something to be said about guys that win, and you can’t take that away from them. Shoot, you watch the NFL, when it comes down to the end of the season, you have to have a good quarterback. The teams that don’t aren’t there. So, for all the flak he gets, he’s done it twice, so you can’t take that away from him.

Q: Did you see Odell Beckham Jr.’s catch last year?

A: I did, I did. That was impressive. I don’t know if there’s too many people who can do that.

Q: Can you make a catch like that at first?

A: I got a glove and the ball’s a lot smaller (smile).

Q: How did you become a Packers fan?

A: Dad is from Wisconsin, so he was a Packer fan. So I grew up big Brett Favre fan.

Q: Have you been to Lambeau Field?

A: I haven’t. That’s another thing I really want to do.

Q: What was it like being drafted in the fifth round in 2011?

A: I didn’t know exactly where I was gonna go, but once I got taken — what better organization in baseball to get taken by than the New York Yankees?

Q: Do you miss catching?

A: I miss being like part of every pitch. You’re calling the game, you’re calling the shots, and that strategy with you and the pitcher to get him out is fun to me. But I’m really happy with what I’m doing now. I think it’s gonna be better for me.

Q: Hobbies?

A: I like to fish. I like to hike … basically anything outdoors. … Got a little bit of a gamer in me, play a little PlayStation.

Q: Three dinner guests?

A: Babe Ruth, George Washington, Martin Luther King.

Q: What would you feed Babe Ruth?

A: He likes beer and hot dogs, right? (smile).

Q: Favorite movie?

A: “Major League.”

Q: Favorite actor?

A: Jim Carrey.

Q: Favorite actress?

A: Elizabeth Banks

Q: Favorite singer?

A: Eric Church.

Q: Favorite meal?

A: Sushi.

Q: You’re not in awe of playing in New York.

A: It fits my personality being here, and being a part of the Yankees, which is more than just baseball, you know what I mean? It’s the tradition and all that, I enjoy that, and it’s cool to just put on that uniform every day to me, and be a part of it. I don’t know how else to say it, but … I wouldn’t be anywhere else, put it that way.