Second, as we expected athletes to recall their goal-directed self-talk in a wide variety of situations, we aimed to add to the process of constructing a comprehensive scheme of goal-directed self-talk functions. According to recent experiences (Latinjak, Masó et al., 2018), the existing categories of goal-directed self-talk functions may be insensitive to relevant nuances in self-talk functions in specific situations, such as acquiring a new skill, feeling tired or waiting for a game to start. Consequently, in this study, deductive and inductive approaches to data analysis were used. First, the previously established and confirmed scheme of goal-directed self-talk functions was taken as a starting point, using deductive analyses. Second, inductive analyses were deemed useful to expand on the previous framework where different meanings are identified within the same category.M