That would be far better and more in character, but if I had to rephrase that junk he said before, I would have at least said something like,
"Look, Paul, we both want to win the Sinnoh League and beat Cynthia, right? After you battled her, you told me to battle my own way, because that's what you wanted to do. Since then, I've realized what it really means to be strong: to have strong bonds with my friends and my Pokemon-- to never give up no matter what, and to treat all my Pokemon and friends equally! That's why I'm working so hard to make them as strong as they can be, the way only I can. We both have the same goals, but the way we reach those goals couldn't be any different!"