GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Now we know where Aaron Rodgers' insistence on avoiding interceptions began.

"I think it comes from playing for Chico Jaguars back in the eighth grade for coach Curtis Holder and throwing way too many interceptions," the Green Bay Packers quarterback said Tuesday on his ESPN Milwaukee radio show.

As noted earlier, Rodgers set the mark for the fewest interceptions by an NFL quarterback to reach 200 touchdowns.

"Ours or nobody's has always been our philosophy," Rodgers said.

Rodgers said ever since his freshman year of high school in Chico, California, he has made it a goal to throw fewer than 10 interceptions per season.

"I've only thrown over 10 interceptions, I think my junior year of high school because of a poor last playoff game and two years in the pros where I threw 11 [in 2010] and 13 [in 2008]," Rodgers said. "Other than that, I've always tried to keep my interceptions low."

In college, Rodgers threw 43 touchdowns with only 12 interceptions in two seasons at Cal. If you count his one year at Butte College, he had 71 touchdowns and only 16 interceptions as a collegian.

Through five games this season, Rodgers has 12 touchdowns and only one interception. That lone pick came in the opener on a pass that was slightly off the mark and was tipped by receiver Jordy Nelson.

Rodgers' best touchdown-to-interception mark came in his MVP season of 2011, when he threw 45 touchdowns and only six interceptions in 15 regular-season games. He said he admired the performances of Eagles quarterback Nick Foles last season and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in 2010.

"To only throw six in '11 was great," Rodgers said. "But last year Nick Foles throwing 27 touchdowns and two interceptions I think is fantastic, and Brady a couple of years ago threw, I think, 36 and four interceptions. To take care of the football like that is phenomenal. That's kind of the goal every year is to limit those, but some of them happen."