Johnny Bower quotes

Johnny Bower quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.”
-- Johnny Bower

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“I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces.”
-- Johnny Bower

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“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”
“When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.”
“When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.”
“To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.”
“Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.”
“Girls, where are you? I can't find you.”
“I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.”
“Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.”
“Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.”
“The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.”

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