Daredevil, Season 1

[In a flashback, Matt and Stick are on a park bench, eating ice cream]

Young Matt Murdock:
So what kind of training is this?

Stick:
You like ice cream?

Young Matt:
Yeah.

Stick:
Then shut up and eat it. I'll ask the questions. First thing you gotta understand is nobody feels sorry for you and nobody ever will. 'Cause when it comes to being born lucky you won the friggin' lottery.

Young Matt:
I did?

Stick:
[Smacks him with his cane] What did I say about questions?

Young Matt:
"Shut up."

Stick:
Good. How old were you when you got blinded?

Young Matt:
Nine.

Stick:
Nine? So you had nine whole years of looking at movies, blue skies, up girlies' skirts that I never had. I was born blind. You don't hear me whining about it, do you?

Young Matt:
No.

Stick:
So, you're nine years old, walking along, minding your own business and whammo! Get hit by a truck, killed dead on the spot.

Young Matt:
I wasn't killed.

Stick:
You lived? Praise God, it's a miracle. So you survive the truck and get this chemical shit in your eyes. What next?

Young Matt:
I hear things.

Stick:
What kind of things?

Young Matt:
Everything. Coughs and fights and cats meowing. Sometimes blocks away. I can sense things. I know where things are and when they move. But I can't see.

Stick:
You know what they call stuff like that? Gifts. The special kind. The kind that very few people have. Or deserve.

Young Matt:
I never thought of it that way.

Stick:
Well, that's because you're stupid.

Young Matt:
I'm not stupid, I'm smart.

Stick:
Because you taught yourself how to run your little fingers over the bumps and read Braille? Smart don't come out of books, kid. Smart is making the right decision at the right time. Like now. What's it gonna be, Matty? You gonna spend your life crying and rocking yourself to sleep at night? Or are you gonna dig deep and find out what it takes to reshuffle those cards life dealt you? Your call.