New Yankees manager Aaron Boone took a timeout for some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.

Q: If you could pick the brain of one manager in the history of baseball, who would it be?
A: I think I’d want to go back and just sit down with Billy Martin … see what’s going on there. I’ve heard, obviously a number of (chuckle) incredible stories over the years, but he’d be a guy that I think it’d be cool to sit down with and just hear him talk about the game.

Q: What do you think you might ask him?
A: (Chuckle) I don’t know if I’d ask him much. I’d rather just be a fly on the wall and sit there and say, “Just start telling these stories.” I don’t know, “Just tell me about back in the day,” not only as a player but then obviously all of his managing stints and just the colorful character that he was. I would just want to sit there and listen to some of the stories he I’m sure has for days.

Q: How will you motivate?
A: That’s a good question. I hope to be a tremendous relationship-builder. I don’t think I’m gonna have a lot of rah-rah stand-up riveting speeches. I don’t know if that’s really the best way to go about things in Major League Baseball. But hopefully I motivate with my work ethic, with the connection that I have with the players, with my preparedness, and just with my ability to connect and tap into individual guys, and everyone’s a little bit different in trying to get the most out of each individual.

Q: What won’t you tolerate?
A: I will not tolerate someone that’s not pouring their heart into what we’re doing. And that can look a lot of different ways, but unfortunately, when you do see that, it’s very clear, and that’ll be something that I will not tolerate.

Q: Who is one pitcher in history you would have liked to have faced?
A: I think Bob Feller. Obviously there’s the motorcycle race and his fastball (chuckle). My grandfather [Ray Boone] got to play with Bob Feller, so in my family with my brothers and my dad [Bob Boone] and my grandfather, a lot of our conversations talked about the different eras, and a lot of times my grandpa would mention Bob Feller. So he’s a guy I’d love to see, what it was it like to play in the ’40s and ’50s and face a guy of that era that was maybe the premier power pitcher.

Q: Who are coaches in other sports you admire?
A: Andy Reid, Gregg Popovich, [USC Trojans football coach] Clay Helton.

Q: Why Reid?
A: As an Eagle fan, kind of, growing up, and obviously he had such a long tenure there, just a guy that I have a lot of respect for the way he goes about things. When I was a young player with the Reds, I got a Donovan McNabb helmet sent to my condo in Cincinnati — Andy Reid sent it. When I had my heart surgery in 2009 it was during OTAs, so he sent me a football signed by a bunch of the receivers and running backs and all that that I still have on my mantel.

Q: Popovich?
A: The first time I ever saw him coach I went to a game in L.A., a Clippers-Spurs game, and I found myself captivated by just his presence and the way he kind of conducted himself and ran things on the bench, and obviously massively successful. And now Clay Helton, I just respect the person, the man, one of those guys that I would call an outstanding leader of men. Just a guy that, as a Trojan, I really pull for as well.

Q: Who are athletes in other sports who you admire?
A: My childhood hero is Mo Cheeks of the 76ers, No. 10. One of my all time favorites. I love LeSean McCoy and Le’Veon Bell — watching kind of the art form of which they run the football with, I really enjoy that.

Q: Who are leaders who you admire?
A: Popovich. I think he’s been a great leader of that organization, sustainability, success obviously. [Bill] Belichick, in what he’s been able to do in the NFL. Bruce Bochy, with what he’s been able to do in San Francisco.

Q: When you make your very first pitching change, will you do your Joe Torre walk to the mound?
A: (Chuckle) I will not.

Q: When did you start doing imitations?
A: Probably when I was 3 or 4 years old, I think. I was one that always watched closely. It kind of goes back to when my dad was with the Phillies when I was a little kid. In rain delays, or down times, or in the father-son game, they would always have me come out and ask me to imitate different guys. So it started at a very young age, and something that I’ve always had a little bit of fun with.

Q: Is Torre your best imitation?
A: (Laugh) Some might say that. That seems to be a popular one that people ask for a lot. We’ve gone out to dinner with people who have never seen it, sometimes people say, “All right, when you leave tonight, you gotta leave as Joe Torre.” So sometimes I’ll do that. That seems to be at least a popular one, certainly nowadays and obviously with all of Joe’s success.

Q: How do you deal with stress?
A: My down time, I watch episodes of “Friends” on Netflix. I spend time in the Word. And I love to play golf in my down time. So those are three things that I guess are calming influences for me.

Q: Do you have an appreciation for how New York embraces winners and championship teams?
A: Oh, yes. Absolutely. Look, there’s a lot of great places to play baseball, to play sports, and a lot of amazing fan bases. But you’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere better than winning for a New York team, and especially the Yankees.

Q: Do you visualize a parade through the Canyon of Heroes?

A: No, I don’t really go there, especially now that we’re off and running here the last few days. I’m just kind of lost in all the work that needs to be done, lost right now in the process. Hopefully something like that is obviously the end result of some of the seeds we’re laying right now.

Q: The first time you saw Yankee Stadium.
A: I was probably nine years old. It was my dad’s first year with the Angels, and in 1982, after having played his entire career in Philadelphia, and we still lived in South Jersey. So the first time the Angels came to New York, we went up there. It was memorable. As a little kid especially going to a city the size and scope and just bustle of New York, and then going into an iconic place as a little kid, as a baseball fan, you understood you were stepping into a special place.

Q: Favorite New York City things?
A: I love to dine. There’s no better place to go and get an amazing meal and so many different kinds of meals.

Q: How did fatherhood change you?

A: It’s the ultimate responsibility, and I think it’s the ultimate feeling of really understanding what unconditional love’s all about. You have a child — in our case four kids — unconditional love I think is something you truly have a grasp of when you have a child.

Q: You said you wanted smart and confident sitting next to you on the bench. Does that also describe your wife?
A: Absolutely. Absolutely.

Q: Three dinner guests?
A: Babe Ruth, Abe Lincoln, Martin Luther King.

Q: Favorite movie?
A: “Shawshank Redemption” is my always go-to there.

Q: Favorite comedian?
A: Jerry Seinfeld.

Q: Favorite meal?
A: The end of the day, a New York strip is tough to beat.

Q: What drives you?
A: The chance at greatness. The chance in this job now to win a championship. That’s the driving force behind this.

Q: Your message to Yankees fans?
A: You’re gonna get all I got.