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Funny and wise
Michael Schumacher is the largest Formula 1 professional in the world. But on December 29, 2013, his life has definitely changed ...
On Sunday, two days before New Year's Eve, Michael Schumacher crashed while making a ski trip in the French Alps with friends. Despite the helmet, the 44-year-old Formula 1 World Champion crashed his head so hard on a rock that he sustained severe head injuries.
Michael Schumacher was then admitted to the hospital in Grenoble, where he was treated for severe traumatic brain injury. Two operations on the head and the transfer to the artificial coma have been carried out so far. Meanwhile, Schumi is in a stable but still very critical condition.
Currently his wife Corinna and the children, as well as his father and brother Ralf are with him in the intensive care unit, where the racing driver continues to fight for his life.
"There is still a long way to go, " Jean-Francois Payen, the doctor in charge, said on Tuesday.
That Michael Schumacher is a fighter-nature, he has already often demonstrated on the racetrack. The man, whom his manager Sabine Kehm describes as "hearty, witty, the typical Rhinelander" according to "Bild.de", has bite - and everyone hopes that he can win the biggest fight - his own life,
His funniest and most exciting sayings, we have compiled for you as quotes .
