“I've been asked who I would pay to watch to play tennis, and Roger would be one of the few.”

—  Martina Navrátilová

Quoted in "Federer's touch of class" http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/03/1088488199904.html, The Age (July 4, 2004).

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