Two important distinctions regarding the characteristics ofsport tasks concern motor demands and novelty. Regarding motor demands, the distinction is between tasks involving mostly fine motor skills, which require dexterity, hand-eye coordination, precision, and accuracy (e.g., dart throwing, golf-putting, shooting in basketball) and tasks involving mostly gross motor skills, which require physical conditioning, endurance, strength, and power (e.g., cycling, long distance running, long-jump, shot-put). Hatzigeorgiadis (2006) provided preliminary evidence that self-talk strategies mainly enhance attention to the task. Assuming that performance in precision and coordination tasks depends more on concentration than in strength and endurance tasks, we hypothesized that self-talk interventions would have a higher impact on tasks requiring fine skills than on tasks requiring gross skills.