Several studies addressed the functions of athletes’ self-talk. However, it is worth noticing that this line of research has not been confined to goal-directed self-talk. A plethora of experimental studies on strategic self-talk have inquired into the mechanisms underlying the effects of repeating predetermined cue words or phrases on sport performance (for a review see, Galanis, Hatzigeorgiadis, Zourbanos, & Theodorakis, 2016). Regarding functions of goal-directed self-talk, previous research has evidenced both points of agreement and inconsistency. In a nutshell, researchers agree on two broad, main goal-directed self-talk functions: motivational or affective and instructional or cognitive (Hardy, 2006; Hardy et al., 2009; Hatzigeorgiadis & Galanis, 2017; Latinjak, Ramis, & Torregrossa, 2017; Theodorakis, Weinberg, Natsis, Douma, & Kazakas, 2000; Zourbanos, Hatzigeorgiadis, Chroni, Theodorakis, & Papaioannou, 2009). The popularity of this succinct and elegant two-functional representation of self-talk stands in contrast to the inconsistencies between authors who proposed multicategory structures of self-talk functions.