| 100% | DUCHAMP | 7 | Artist and chess player who said "While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists" |
| 39% | PELE | 4 | Who said "Football is not about one or two or three star players" |
| 39% | WILKENS | 7 | Lenny ___, American former basketball player who was NBA All-Star as both player and head coach |
| 38% | ROSE | 4 | Pete ___, former baseball player who is the all-time MLB leader in hits and number of games played |
| 36% | ADLAIESTEVENSON | 15 | Who said "A hungry man is not a free man" |
| 36% | LIZLEMON | 8 | Sitcom protagonist who says "I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich" |
| 35% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who said "A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity" |
| 35% | PAULMORPHY | 10 | Late American chess player who was called "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess," and is considered to be the best in his era (1850s): 2 wds. |
| 35% | BJORNBORG | 9 | Player to whom tennis great Ilie Nastase was referring when he said "We're playing tennis, and he's playing something else" |
| 35% | MAO | 3 | Leader who said "Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible" |
| 35% | EINSTEIN | 8 | Who said "The greatest scientists are artists as well" |
| 35% | PLATO | 5 | Who said "Courage is knowing what not to fear" |
| 35% | STYLE | 5 | "___ is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn": Gore Vidal |
| 35% | MCCAW | 5 | Richie —, All Blacks captain who was 2006, 2009 and 2010 IRB International Player of the Year |
| 35% | CAPABLANCA | 10 | Late Cuban chess player Jose Raul ___, who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927 and is considered one of the best ever |
| 35% | EEYORE | 6 | Illustrated character who said, “We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it” |
| 34% | HARVEYMILK | 10 | Politician and LGBTQ+ activist who said "Hope will never be silent" |
| 34% | SORELOSER | 9 | Player who is not graceful in defeat |
| 33% | DENYING | 7 | Saying and asserting that something is not true |
| 33% | EBERT | 5 | Who said "No good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough" |
| 33% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain who says, "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing" |
| 33% | MAYS | 4 | Willie ___, former baseball center fielder nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid" who has 12 Gold Gloves and was a 24-time All-Star |
| 33% | MAO | 3 | Who said "A revolution is not a dinner party" |
| 33% | CHAPLIN | 7 | Who said "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl" |
| 33% | FLYONTHEWALL | 12 | One who hears and is not seen |
| 33% | RAPUNZEL | 8 | Character from "Tangled" who says the line "And the thing is, I'm not scared anymore" |
| 33% | SHOHEIOHTANI | 12 | Japanese MLB player who was the first player in history to be a pitcher and hitter in the All-Star Game, in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 33% | HAMLET | 6 | Who says "To be, or not to be: that is the question" |
| 33% | MAHER | 5 | TV host who said "It's all been satirized for your protection" |
| 33% | IRINA | 5 | Chess player Krush who is the only American woman Grandmaster |