[...Yeah, it kinda is, when you really think about it. Maybe that's why he hasn't asked too many details from Ash about past history involving these guys...]

Now you understand why I don't particularly like them, right? Normally I would admire one's determination to succeed in normal trainers, but with Team Rocket...no, this taste is just despicable. They're quite a nuisance to have to contend with, especially those three members in particular that I mentioned before.

[He can think of maybe one time when they barely qualified as "tolerable", but even then that was a situation that could have been potentially avoided, maybe, if they had not been around.]