Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.